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Illuminator

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Agent noun of illuminate:; One who illuminates; an explainer.
  2. 2
    Agent noun of illuminate:; 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."

Etymology

From illuminate + -or.

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