lucubratorn.
/ˈluːkjᵿbreɪtə/, /ˈljuːkjᵿbreɪtə/, U.S. /ˈluk(j)əˌbreɪdər/ (a) A nocturnal student. (b) One who produces lucubrations.
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society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > one who studies > at night
elucubrator1566
candle-waster1600
lucubrator1775
society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > writer of carefully elaborated work
lucubratist1759
lucubrator1775
1775 S. J. Pratt Liberal Opinions (1783) IV. cxxiii. 137 I remained in his lucubratory, which, in point of exterior, surpassed everything but the lucubrator.
1828 C. H. Phipps English in France II. 240 The most idle and unprofessional of lucubrators.
1833 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eng. & English II. iv. ii. 55 This quality..is entirely new in an essayist. I know of no other lucubrator who possesses it.
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