All 12 Uses of
illustrate
in
Ben Hur
- They are dead to me now; yet through all time they will serve to illustrate the budding genius of my race.
Chpt 1.4illustrate = help make clear
- The tumult thundered above him; he looked around; in the cabin all was confusion—the rowers on the benches paralyzed; men running blindly hither and thither; only the chief on his seat imperturbable, vainly beating the sounding-board, and waiting the orders of the tribune—in the red murk illustrating the matchless discipline which had won the world.
Chpt 3.5illustrating = helping make clear
- In this question, Simonides for the first time showed signs of feeling; he spoke with rapid utterance, and with clenched hands and the eagerness of a man illustrating the disease he described.
Chpt 4.11
- This was according to a custom, old probably as the day of the race of Orestes—a custom, by the way, worthy of study as a marvel of history, illustrative of the absurd yet appalling extremities to which men frequently suffer their follies to drag them.†
Chpt 5.11 *illustrative = serving to help explain or demonstrate something
- These benches which now we are trying to see as they were testified to the change come with conquest, and illustrated both the policy and the prowess of Rome.†
Chpt 3.2
- Having adopted the doctrine, like most men with a hobby, he was always looking for illustrations to support it.†
Chpt 3.2
- Arrived at the Omphalus—a monument of four arches wide as the streets, superbly illustrated, and erected to himself by Epiphanes, the eighth of the Seleucidae—he suddenly changed his mind.†
Chpt 4.2
- A certain facility of accommodation in the matter of religion comes to us after much intercourse with people of a different faith; gradually we attain the truth that every creed is illustrated by good men who are entitled to our respect, but whom we cannot respect without courtesy to their creed.†
Chpt 4.5
- "I give thee peace, son of Arrius," he said, with admiration, for, in truth, he had never seen a more perfect illustration of glowing, powerful, confident manhood.†
Chpt 5.2
- He illustrated the process by clapping his hand over his own mouth.†
Chpt 5.16
- Nay, while the officers were making ready with their ropes the Nazarene was doing his greatest charity—not the greatest in deed, but the very greatest in illustration of his forbearance, so far surpassing that of men.†
Chpt 8.8
- If faith were worthy reward in the person of Gaspar, and love in that of Melchior, surely he should have some special meed who through a long life and so excellently illustrated the three virtues in combination—Faith, Love, and Good Works.†
Chpt 8.10
Definitions:
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(1)
(illustrate as in: as illustrated by this example) to help make clear -- typically by example
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(2)
(illustrate as in: an illustrated children's book) to draw pictures (or provide photographs) to accompany a book or other writing
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)