Synonyms:
enlightened
Meaning: having knowledge and spiritual insight
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
initiate, enlightened
Meaning: people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity; "it is very familiar to the initiate"
Usage examples
"Mrs. Clear, also?" questioned Lucian, wishing to be enlightened on all points.
It is the primitive man in me, I suppose, but sobered and enlightened by civilization.
We, therefore, pronounce false every assertion which is contrary to the enlightened truth of faith....
Nevertheless one was in existence: it had just been completed in that country of enlightened method and industry--Germany.
Undoubtedly there is here a great economic force which an enlightened public opinion, even without a formal association, can make in large measure effective.
He gave his experience of Slavery pretty fully, and the Committee enlightened him as to the workings of the Underground Rail Road, the value of freedom, and the safety of Canada as a refuge.
This progressive and painful education of our instinct, this slow and imperceptible transformation of our spontaneous perceptions into deliberate knowledge, does not take place among the animals, whose instincts remain fixed, and never become enlightened.
And from the blood and travail of an enlightened people, there will be born a spirit of love and brotherhood which will transform the world; and the Star of Bethlehem, seen but darkly for two thousand years, will shine again with a steady and effulgent glow."
I suspect, gentlemen, that you are looking at me with compassion; you tell me again that an enlightened and developed man, such, in short, as the future man will be, cannot consciously desire anything disadvantageous to himself, that that can be proved mathematically.
The most enlightened Americans attribute the subordinate influence of the press to this excessive dissemination; and it is adopted as an axiom of political science in that country that the only way to neutralize the effect of public journals is to multiply them indefinitely.