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The Da Vinci Code vocabulary
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luminary
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Definition:1. Any body that gives light, especially one of the heavenly bodies.2. One who illustrates any subject, or enlightens mankind; as, Newton was a distinguished luminary.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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They calculate the year by the revolution of the sun and moon, but use no subdivisions into weeks. They are well enough acquainted with the motions of those two luminaries, and understand the nature of eclipses; and this is the utmost progress of their astronomy.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
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Even when this worthy jurist happened to have a great luminary in to visit, even when a United States senator came by, they sat there hunched over their deli sandwiches, the luminary, too.
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