illuminator

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illuminator

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From illuminate + -or.

noun illuminators · illuminatour

One who illuminates; an explainer.
An artist who adds illustrations and decorations to illuminated manuscriptsᵂ. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written

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@misc{illuminator_2026,
  title = {illuminator},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/illuminator},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}