单词 | lucubrate |
释义 | lucubratev. 1. intransitive. Literally, To work by artificial light. In modern use, to produce ‘lucubrations’, discourse learnedly in writing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > follow occupation of writer [verb (intransitive)] > compose > lucubrations lucubrate1623 1623 in H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. 1755 in S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. 1804 European Mag. 45 18 I have often lucubrated for your Magazine. 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xliv. 23 I like to speak and lucubrate my fill. 1824 T. Arnold in A. P. Stanley Life of Dr. Arnold (1844) I. 63 I could lucubrate largely de omni scibili, but paper happily runs short. 1832 Fraser's Mag. 5 755 In spite of this neglect Gioja and others have within the last four years flourished and lucubrated in Italy. 1900 Speaker 29 Dec. 347/1 This is not Mr. Alfred Austin lucubrating in the columns of the Times. Categories » 2. transitive. To produce (literary compositions) by laborious study. (In recent dictionaries.) DerivativesΚΠ a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation (1645) Sol. i. 3 We..Spare neither sweat nor lucubrated Oyle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1623 |
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