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lustr-, lust- (Latin: light up, shine).


illustrate:
1. To shed light upon, light up, illumine.
2. To clarify something by giving examples or making comparisons so as to "throw the light of intelligence upon; to make clear, elucidate, clear up, explain".
2. To provide explanatory or decorative pictures to accompany a printed, spoken, or electronic text.
3. To elucidate (a description, etc.) by means of drawings or pictures; to ornament (a book, etc.) in this way with elucidatory designs. Said also of the pictures themselves.
illustration:
An example or comparison that helps to clarify or explain something.
2. The art or process of producing or providing pictures to accompany a text.
3. The action or fact of making clear or evident to the mind; setting forth clearly or pictorially; elucidation; explanation; exemplification.
illustrative, illustratively:
Serving or tending to illustrate, make clear or elucidate; explanatory, elucidatory; affording an illustration or example; exemplificatory.
illustrator:
Someone who gives or draws illustrations; the artist who illustrates a book or periodical.
illustrious, illustriously:
1. Extremely distinguished and deservedly famous.
2. Possessing luster by reason of high birth or rank, noble or lofty action or qualities; distinguished, eminent; renowned, famous.
luster:
1. A soft sheen of reflected light, especially from metal that has been polished gently.
2. A bright and shiny condition or tone.
3. The glory and magnificence of a great achievement.
4. A chandelier or candelabrum made of cut glass, designed to reflect the light.
5. The quality and amount of light reflected from the surface of a mineral. This is one of the ways in which a mineral is defined, the highest degree of luster being "splendent".
6. Luminosity, brilliancy, bright light; luminous splendor.
lustral:
Serving to purify the spirit, or relating to ceremonies of religious purification. See lustrum for probable etymology.
lustrate:
To make someone or something spiritually pure by means of a special religious ceremony.
lustrify:
To make lustrous.
lustrine:
A glossy silk fabric.
lustrous:
With a soft shine, sheen, or gloss.
lustrum:
Historically, the purification of the entire ancient Roman people, taking place every five years after the census. From Latin, "purification"; probably ultimately from an Indo-European word meaning "light, bright." The various phases of the sense development of lustrum may probably be as follows: "illumination, inspection, review, mustering, expiatory offering, expiation." [According to Dr. Ernest Klein in his A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language.]