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elucubration|ɪˌl(j)uːkjuːˈbreɪʃən|
[f. as prec.: see -ation.]
†1. The action of studying or composing by candle-light; expenditure of ‘midnight oil’. Obs.
1643Sober Sadness 6 After so many monethes elucubrations. 1697Evelyn Numism. ix. 305 Macerating Studies and Elucubrations. 1775in Ash.
2. concr. The product or result of studying or composing by candle-light: hence gen. any literary composition. Cf. lucubration.
1664H. More Synop. Proph. To Rdr. 185 Those worthily-magnified elucubrations of Mr. Joseph Mede. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 272 S. Cyrillus..whose most Erudite Elucubrations were printed at Paris. 1859F. Mahoney Rel. Father Prout. 168 Such is the perfume that breathes from thy chest of posthumous elucubrations.
Hence elucubrationary a.
1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 383 Those corrupt Elucubrationary mixtures of Orthodoxy and inoculated Heterodoxy. |