The Devil's Dictionary: Illuminati

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
IGNORAMUS
ILLUSTRIOUS

ILLUMINATI

-n.

A sect of Spanish heretics of the latter part of the sixteenth century; so called because they were light weights - cunctationes illuminati.

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