Verb

(head)

(illustrate)

Verb

(illustrat)

(obsolete) To shed light upon; to illuminate.

* Were the Moon smooth, as a looking glass, a very small part would be seen by any particular eye to be illustrated by the Sun.

* Chapman

Here, when the moon illustrates all the sky.

To clarify something by giving, or serving as, an example or a comparison.

* Milton

To prove him, and illustrate his high worth.

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* We illustrate our definitions by including quotations or simple examples.

To provide a book or other publication with pictures, diagrams or other explanatory or decorative features.

* The economics textbook was illustrated with many graphs.

(obsolete) To give renown or honour to; to make illustrious; to glorify.

* Milton

Matter to me of glory, whom their hate / Illustrates .

Verb

(en verb)

To transport; to carry; to take from one place to another.

* Shakespeare

Convey me to my bed, then to my grave.

Air conveys''' sound; words '''convey ideas.

To communicate; to make known; to portray.

to convey''' an impression; to '''convey information

* John Locke

Men fill one another's heads with noise and sound, but convey not thereby their thoughts.

(legal) To transfer legal rights (to).

He conveyed ownership of the company to his daughter.

* Spenser

The Earl of Desmond secretly conveyed all his lands to feoffees in trust.

(obsolete) To manage with privacy; to carry out.

* Shakespeare

I will convey the business as I shall find means.

(obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.