illuminator

[ ih-loo-muh-ney-ter ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person or thing that illuminates.
a device for illuminating, as a light source with a lens or mirror for concentrating light.
a person who paints manuscripts, books, etc., with designs in color, gold, or the like.

1475–85; < Late Latin illūminātor, equivalent to illūminā ( re ) ( illumine ) + -tor -tor

A nitron illuminator flashed brilliantly upon shining levers—emergency controls that they hoped they would not have to use.

It may not be amiss, also, for the illuminator to remember, that not unfrequently "a verse may find him whom a sermon flies."

He traveled far and wide as a teacher and illuminator of men.

He was munificent in his patronage of the arts, and was himself a skilled illuminator and bookbinder.

He is described in the register of that institution as “illuminator, painter and engraver.”

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