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lucubrate, v.|ˈl(j)uːkjuːbreɪt|
[f. L. lūcubrāt-, ppl. stem of lūcubrāre, f. lūc-, lūx light.]
1. intr. Literally, To work by artificial light. In mod. use, to produce ‘lucubrations’, discourse learnedly in writing.
1623in Cockeram. 1755in Johnson. 1804Europ. Mag. XLV. 18, I have often lucubrated for your Magazine. 1817Byron Beppo xlvii, I like to speak and lucubrate my fill. 1824Arnold in Life (ed. 5) 75, I could lucubrate largely de omni scibili, but paper happily runs short. 1832Fraser's Mag. V. 755 In spite of this neglect Gioja and others have within the last four years flourished and lucubrated in Italy. 1900Speaker 29 Dec. 347/1 This is not Mr. Alfred Austin lucubrating in the columns of the Times.
2. trans. To produce (literary compositions) by laborious study.
(In recent Dicts.)
Hence † ˈlucubrated ppl. a., (a) consumed in lucubration; (b) studied or done by artificial light (Bailey vol. II, 1727).
1645Quarles Sol. Recant. i. 8 We..Spare neither sweat nor lucubrated Oyle. |