- persons possessing, or claiming to possess, superior enlightenment.
- a name given to different religious societies or sects because of their claim to superior enlightenment.
- a group of persons claiming exceptional enlightenment on some subject, esp religion
- any of several groups of illuminati, esp in 18th-century France
- a group of religious enthusiasts of 16th-century Spain who were persecuted by the Inquisition
- a masonic sect founded in Bavaria in 1778 claiming that the illuminating grace of Christ resided in it alone
- a rare name for the Rosicrucians
