Illuminator

Alternative forms

• illuminatour obsolete, rare

Origin

{1} + -or

Full definition of illuminator

Noun

1. Agent noun of illuminate; one who illuminates; an explainer.
2. An artist who adds illustrations and decorations to illuminated manuscripts

• 2013, Henry Petroski, The Evolution of Eyeglasses, 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.