Obs. or arch. [f. L. lūmināt-, ppl. stem of lūmināre, f. lūmin-, lūmen light.] trans. To light up, ILLUMINATE.
1623. Cockeram, Luminate, to giue light.
1693. W. de Britaine, Hum. Prud., v. (ed. 6), 36. Whether the Stars be but Earth luminated, as Thales maintained, or [etc.].
1799. Sir H. Davy, in Beddoes, Contrib. Phys. & Med. Knowl. (1799), 87. The atmosphere [above 45 miles high] is amazingly rare, being composed of phosoxygen highly luminated.
1813. T. Busby, Lucretius, I. I. 634. Would proper principles in Nature lie, To furnish earth and luminate the sky?
Hence Luminated, Luminating ppl. adjs.
1652. Benlowes, Theoph., VII. xix. 97. The Stars … That stud the luminated sphear.
1746. Watson, in Phil. Trans., XLIV. 87. The luminating Power which is gained by Calcination.
1882. G. Macdonald, Castle Warlock, I. xx. 320. He had been inwardly beholding a large breadth of gently luminated spiritual sky.
