different between illuminatory vs illuminator

English

Adjective

illuminatory (comparative more illuminatory, superlative most illuminatory)

1. Increasing informative qualities; explanatory.
   • 1991, Harry Smart, Criticism and Public Rationality: Professional Rigidity and the Search for Caring Government

     The problem of a non-learning authority remains apparently untouched by all the self-critical and self-analytical awareness which is evidenced. This, of course, does not deny the illuminatory potential of structuralist models of society in general, but this one does not work here.

English

Alternative forms

• illuminatour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

illuminate +? -or

Noun

illuminator (plural illuminators)

1. Agent noun of illuminate; one who illuminates; an explainer.
2. An artist who adds illustrations and decorations to illuminated manuscripts^W.

Latin

Verb

ill?min?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of ill?min?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of ill?min?

References

• illuminator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• illuminator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• illuminator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette