meaning of illustrate
1. To make clear, bright, or luminous.
2. To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously.
3. To make clear, intelligible, or apprehensible; to elucidate, explain, or exemplify, as by means of figures, comparisons, and examples.
4. To adorn with pictures, as a book or a subject; to elucidate with pictures, as a history or a romance.
5. To give renown or honor to; to make illustrious; to glorify.
6. Illustrated; distinguished; illustrious.
7. clarify by giving an example of