illuminato noun. [ɪ,lu:mɪ'nɑ:tǝʊ, ɪ,lju:-] Also Illuminato. Usu. in pl. -ti [-ti]. L16.
[Italian = enlightened; pl. partly from Latin illuminati pl. of illuminatus: see ILLUMINATE verb. In German context translating German Illuminaten.]
A member of any of various sects or societies claiming special enlightenment, spec. (a) a sect of 16th-cent. Spanish heretics, (b) a secret society founded by Adam Weishaupt in Bavaria in 1776, holding deistic and republican principles and organized like the Freemasons. Also gen., a person claiming special knowledge on any subject.

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