To make clear, bright or luminous.

To brighten with honor; to make distinguished. Matter to me of glory! whom their hate . Illustrates-- .

To brighten; to make glorious, or to display the glory of; as, to illustrate the perfections of God.

To explain or elucidate; to make clear, intelligible or obvious, what is dark or obscure; as, to illustrate a passage of Scripture by comments, or of a profane author by a gloss.