0 to provide someone with information and understanding, or to explain the true facts about something to someone:
Should the function of children's television be to entertain or to enlighten?
I don't understand this. Could you enlighten me?
1 to cause someone to understand something by explaining it or by bringing new information or facts to that person’s attention:
The parent who requests a label does not ask to be enlightened, but to test and reinforce the child's lexicon.
It's one thing to say we are liberated, enlightened, this and that.
Stadiums, types of plays, equipment, players and managers, properties of the field - the photos are enlightening, especially when used to illustrate difficult-to-imagine terms.
The service has become something of a symbol for enlightened welfare intervention.
A multiple embeddedness frame enlightens the potential rise of global networks, connecting clusters specialized in different activities in different parts of the world.
Ironically, the inception of modernism - the very moment where man (or woman) invented himself (herself) - simultaneously launched new and more subtle "enlightened" mechanisms of control.
Knowing where the lease came from didn't help with their daily routine, but it was enlightening and interesting to that audience anyway.
If enlightened local authority in planning and design is to occur, it will happen when architects overcome their recalcitrance to enter the local fray.
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