lucus a non lucendon.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 59. ¶2. He composed an..Epic Poem..consisting of four and twenty Books, having entirely banished the Letter A from his first Book, which was called Alpha (as Lucus a non lucendo) because there was not an Alpha in it.

c1728 J. Swift in W. King Dreamer (1754) 88 And make his ignorance discerned, To get the name of council learned; (As lucus comes à non lucendo).

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. viii. iv. 172 This Sun, into which Jones was now conducted, was truly named as Lucus a non lucendo; for it was an Apartment into which the Sun had scarce ever looked. View more context for this quotation

1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto VI lv. 28 Thus..has been shown ‘Lucus a non Lucendo’, not what was, But what was not; a sort of style that's grown Extremely common in this age.

1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XI xxi. 113 Through Groves, so called as being void of trees, (Like lucus from no light).

1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain II. xii. 941 St. Jean de Luz..is not a ‘city of light’, but of ‘mud’, and a Lutetia or lucus a non lucendo.

1904 W. F. H. King Classical & Foreign Quotations 186 To the Lucus a non lucendo principle, as it is called, are referred all such paradoxical derivations and descriptions which involve a contradiction in the mere stating of them.

1924 A. Huxley Little Mexican 13 Their philology was the picturesque lucus a non lucendo, bloody from by-our-Lady type.

1958 R. Liddell Morea iii. 219 Was its name Hydraea (watery), a lucus a non lucendo—it is singularly waterless today.

1848 J. R. Lowell Fable for Critics (ed. 2) 69 ‘Illustrations’..are said to illustrate, because, as I view it, Like lucus a non, they precisely don't do it.