illuminate

To shine light on something.

Nero illuminated his gardens with live Christians soaked in tar, and we were now treated to a similar spectacle, probably for the first time since his day, only happily our lamps were not living ones.

A light that is one foot away from the subject's face will completely illuminate the face, but leave the rest of the body softer and darker.

To decorate something with lights.

To clarify or make something understandable.

Jan and Maidi, a lesbian couple, do a very funny routine illuminating the simplicity of the alternative fertilization process and even go so far as to recommend the most suitable receptacles for the semen: marinated artichoke heart jars.

To decorate the page of a manuscript book with ornamental designs.

To make spectacular.

Hodgson's approach may not illuminate proceedings in Poland and Ukraine but early evidence suggests they will be tough to break down.

Enlightened, illuminated, made bright.

February 28 1630, Joseph Hall, The Hypocrite do ye see an illuminate elder of the anabaptists rapt in divine ecstasies?

Enlightened spiritually, divinely taught or inspired; in technical use, converted, baptized.

Learned, erudite.

Someone thought to have an unusual degree of enlightenment.