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单词 lucubrate
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lucubratev.

Brit. /ˈluːkjᵿbreɪt/, /ˈljuːkjᵿbreɪt/, U.S. /ˈluk(j)əˌbreɪt/
Etymology: < Latin lūcubrāt-, participial stem of lūcubrāre, < lūc-, lūx light.
1. intransitive. Literally, To work by artificial light. In modern use, to produce ‘lucubrations’, discourse learnedly in writing.
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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.
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2. transitive. To produce (literary compositions) by laborious study. (In recent dictionaries.)

Derivatives

ˈlucubrated adj. Obsolete (a) consumed in lucubration; (b) studied or done by artificial light (Bailey vol. II, 1727).
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a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation (1645) Sol. i. 3 We..Spare neither sweat nor lucubrated Oyle.
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