alluminate

English

Etymology 1

From Latin allūminō (“to illuminate”).

Verb

alluminate (third-person singular simple present alluminates, present participle alluminating, simple past and past participle alluminated)

1. Alternative form of illuminate
   • 1983, Elizabeth Lueder Karnes, John C Downs, Donald D. Black, Discipline in Our Schools: An Annotated Bibliography, page 9:

     This enables concrete comparisons to be made among teachers and among children who experienced similar and differenct classroom organization, effectively controlling for personal characteristics to alluminate structural effects .

   • 1992, Proceedings of the ... Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences: volume 18 Issues 1-2:

     The principal source of light used to alluminate the flow in the working section consisted of a 1000 watts lamp and a cooling system.

   • 2011, Red Jordan Arobateau, Passage --Vol. 1, page 140:

     I will celebrate our fallen queer soldiers, and shine the light upon twisted sisters and their butch brothers so it can alluminate the pathAlike Dioginese lantern) down the tricky slopes to the future.

   • 2017, Julian H. Franklin, Jean Bodin, page 293:

     In many conversions a single phrase seems to alluminate the whole Bible or a mere image to bring peace and assurance to the soul.

Etymology 2

Noun

alluminate (plural alluminates)

1. Misspelling of aluminate.
   • 1996, Proceedings of the International Topical Meeting on Nuclear and Hazardous Waste Management:

     The alternate parallel arrangement of the silicate (tetrahedral) and alluminate (octahedral) layers and any isomorphous substitution within them accounts for the relatively high ion- exchange behavior of natural clay

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

alluminate

1. inflection of alluminare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

alluminate f pl

1. feminine plural of alluminato