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v. To give spiritual or intellectual insight to: "Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppression of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day” ( Thomas Jefferson).

v. To give information to; inform or instruct.

v. To supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth.

v. To make clear to the intellect or conscience; to shed the light of truth and knowledge upon; to furnish with increase of knowledge; to instruct; as, to enlighten the mind or understanding.

v. To supply with light; to illuminate.

v. To make clear to the intellect or conscience; to shed the light of truth and knowledge upon; to furnish with increase of knowledge; to instruct.

To shed light upon; supply with light; illuminate.

To give intellectual or spiritual light to; illuminate by increase of knowledge and wisdom; instruct; impart knowledge to: as, to enlighten an ignorant community; she was soon enlightened as to his motives.

Synonyms To illume, illumine, irradiate.

To teach.

v. give spiritual insight to; in religion

v. make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear

v. make understand

"To enlighten is to bring light where there had previously been darkness, to replace opinion, i.e., superstition, by scientific knowledge of nature, beginning from phenomena available to all men and ending in rational demonstration possible for all men."

endarken   

enlightened    enlightening    enlightens   

prophesy    vaticinate    clarify    clear up    elucidate    instruct    learn    teach   

brighten   

illuminate    instruct   

Brighton    Titan    Triton    brighten    frighten    heighten    lighten    tighten    titan    triton   

intelligent    humane    disinterested    rational    liberal    civilize    wealthy    influential    sagacious    competent