Unilluminated

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  1.  Not spiritually or mentally enlightened.

1579.  W. Wilkinson, Confut. Fam. Love, B iij b. H. N. sayth of all preachers without his Familie, that they are vnilluminated.

1639.  W. Sclater, Worthy Commun., 23. Thus surely may your dull Capernaites, and unilluminated men imagine.

1660.  H. More, Myst. Godl., VI. xii. 248. What the ungodded or unilluminated men … bring forth.

1798.  Brit. Critic, XI. 47. The hazard of being reputed the disciples of a very unilluminated school.

1858.  H. Bushnell, Serm. New Life, 100. The unilluminated and superficial speculations of our times.

1882.  Farrar, Early Chr., I. 454. To the eyes of the unilluminated heart the region in which Faith lives and moves is a dark cavern.

  2.  Not illuminated or lighted up. Also fig.

1824.  De Quincey, Analects fr. Richter, Wks. 1860, XIV. 137. I saw the Form which still lightened as before, but left all around it unilluminated.

1874.  trans. Lommel’s Light, 15. The back unilluminated surface of the body.