:b. b. Used to render German ''Illuminaten'', the name of a celebrated [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_society secret society], founded at Ingolstadt in Bavaria, in 1776, by Professor [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Wwishaupt Adam Weishaupt], holding [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism deistic] and republican principles, and having an [[organization]] akin to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry freemasonry]; hence applied to other thinkers regarded as [[atheistic]] or [[free]]-thinking, e.g. the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A9distes French Encyclopædists]. | :b. b. Used to render German ''Illuminaten'', the name of a celebrated [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_society secret society], founded at Ingolstadt in Bavaria, in 1776, by Professor [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Wwishaupt Adam Weishaupt], holding [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism deistic] and republican principles, and having an [[organization]] akin to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry freemasonry]; hence applied to other thinkers regarded as [[atheistic]] or [[free]]-thinking, e.g. the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A9distes French Encyclopædists]. |