单词 | lucubrator |
释义 | lucubratorn. (a) A nocturnal student. (b) One who produces lucubrations. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1775 |
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