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Stars wonderful, though the first eclipsed in constellation
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luminaries
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Luminary \Lu"mi*na*ry\, n.; pl. Luminaries , [F. luminaire, L. luminare a light or lamp, which was lighted in the churches, a luminary, fr. lumen, luminis, light, fr. lucere to be light, to shine, lux, lucis, light. See Light .] Any body that gives light, ...
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n. (plural of luminary English)
Usage examples of luminaries.
Many of the luminaries of the field took part: Kapor and Godwin as a matter of course.
Great and small, through all the upper levels these strange luminaries gleamed, fixed and motionless, hanging unsupported in space.
Like bagatelles we felt in that tremendous place, the weird luminaries gleaming above like garlands of frozen suns, the enigmatic hosts of animate cubes and spheres and pyramids trooping past.
So thick they fell that now the brooding luminaries were dim aureoles within them.
The fact that she was practically rubbing shoulders with Brad and Julia and half-a-dozen other luminaries was a matter of complete indifference to her.
One was a picture of Katya Lupi, dressed in a gown so sheer it looked as though it had been painted on, the other a much more informal photograph which showed Katya, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Theda Bara, Ramon Navarro and a host of other luminaries at a picnic in the shadow of the dream palace in Coldheart Canyon.
She directed a callow young cultivator to stimulate a pair of nearby luminaries, then leaned forward to examine the still face by their shimmering green light.
Her head swiveled as she gazed around at the familiar surroundings, the luminaries, the circular rows of nests, the carefully tended berry arbors and shellfruit patches, the vine corral.
Here he met not only scholars in his field but luminaries from the other disciplines as well.
For, so far as regards the day and night, with which we are familiar, He commanded those luminaries of heaven that are obvious to our senses to divide between the light and the darkness.