3. (verb)illuminati members of a sect which sprung up in Spain about the year 1575. Their principaldoctrine was, that, by means of prayer, they had attained to so perfect a state as to have no need of ordinances, sacraments, good works, etc.; -- called also Alumbrados, Perfectibilists, etc
4. (verb)illuminati members of certain associations in Modern Europe, who combined to promote social reforms, by which they expected to raise men and society to perfection, esp. of one originated in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt, professor of canon law at Ingolstadt, which spread rapidly for a time, but ceased after a few years
5. (verb)illuminati an obscure sect of French Familists;
6. (verb)illuminati the Hesychasts, Mystics, and Quietists;
1. illuminati a class or fraternity of people who affectsuperior enlightenment, particularly on religious and social matters, tending of late in the one to Deism, and in the other to Republicanism, in France forming a body of materialists, and in Germany a body of idealists; the former to the disparagement of ideas, and the latter to the disparagement of reason, and both hostile to the Church.
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