illuminator
nounEtymology From illuminate + -or.
› Agent noun of illuminate:
1
One who illuminates; an explainer.
2
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, drawn, or read.2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
- Derived terms
- endoilluminator
- Related terms
- illumination