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单词 lucubration
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lucubrationn.

Brit. /ˌluːkjᵿˈbreɪʃn/, /ˌljuːkjᵿˈbreɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌluk(j)əˈbreɪʃən/
Etymology: < Latin lūcubrātiōn-em, noun of action < lūcubrāre to lucubrate v.
1. The action or occupation of lucubrating; nocturnal study or meditation; study in general; an instance of this.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > [noun]
i-mindOE
studyinglOE
mindc1300
bethinking1340
poring1340
regard1348
weighingc1380
contemplationc1390
advisementa1393
deliberationa1393
advicec1405
reckoninga1413
visement?1414
considerancec1420
advisenessc1425
revolutionc1425
rewardc1432
mind-takingc1449
umbethinkingc1450
advisednessc1475
considering1483
beholding1530
meditationa1535
pondering1535
cogitation?1542
expending1545
ponderation1556
perpending1558
well weighing1566
surview1576
reflex1593
revolve1595
lucubration1596
agitation1600
perpension1612
vizamenta1616
pensitation1623
perpensation1623
perpendment1667
ruminating1668
commentationa1670
revolving1670
reflectiona1674
introspectiona1676
propendencya1676
ponderment1728
chawing1845
society > education > learning > study > [noun] > laborious study > at night
lucubration1596
elucubration1643
the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > [noun] > consideration beforehand > overnight
pillow counsel1573
lucubration1596
1596 T. Bell Suruey Popery Ep. Ded. sig. A2 Who haue spared no time, no labour, no watchinges, no lucubrations, to atchieue exact knowledge in the holie scriptures.
1649 J. Evelyn tr. F. de La Mothe Le Vayer Of Liberty & Servitude iv. 74 The very lamp of earth, wherewithall he used to illuminate his lucubrations, was sold for three thousand drachma's.
a1658 J. Cleveland Wks. (1687) 63 Life is, since he is gone, But a Nocturnal Lucubration.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 140. ⁋1 That state of Mind which is proper for Lucubration.
1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. iii. 79 The virtue of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was..the well-earned harvest of..many a midnight lucubration.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Blessed are ye that Sow 48 If Plato himself were to return and renew his sublime lucubrations.
1847 H. E. Lloyd & B. G. Babington tr. E. von Feuchtersleben Princ. Med. Psychol. 296 Immoderate lucubration with overstrained mental exertion.
1875 Cusin tr. F. Godet Luke II. 40 The light which the Rabbins had not found, or had lost, in their theological lucubrations.
2. quasi-concrete. Usually plural. The product of nocturnal study and meditation; hence, a literary work showing signs of careful elaboration. Now somewhat derisive or playful, suggesting the notion of something pedantic or over-elaborate.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > regarded as the result of labour > carefully elaborated
lucubration1611
elucubration1664
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > laboured or pedantic quality > composition
lucubration1611
strain1693
1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Kk5v His learned lucubrations and most solid workes of Diuinity.
1622 H. Wotton Let. 9 Dec. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 248 Which unfinished lucubration (for so I may justly call it, having been for the most part born in the night).
1693 N. Mather in J. Owen 2 Disc. Holy Spirit Pref. sig. A3v There are some other Lucubrations of his on Subjects nearly allied unto these.
1709 R. Steele & J. Swift Tatler No. 70 Having read your Lucubrations of the 10th Instant.
1745 H. Fielding True Patriot 5 Nov. 1/2 The Encouragement with which those Lucubrations are read, may seem..more difficult to be accounted for.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1750 I. 110 Unconnected fragments of his lucubrations were purposely jumbled together.
a1806 H. K. White Remains (1807) II. 245 A future number of my lucubrations.
1828 J. Ballantyne Exam. Human Mind 26 I have divided my Lucubrations into Four Parts.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. viii. v. 343 We search in vain through tons of dusty lucubration.
1876 A. Laing Lindores Abbey xiii. 127 [She] endeavoured to turn his pious lucubrations into French Verse.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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