lucubration
Americannoun
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laborious work, study, thought, etc., especially at night.
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the result of such activity, as a learned speech or dissertation.
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Often lucubrations. any literary effort, especially of a pretentious or solemn nature.
noun
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laborious study, esp at night
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(often plural) a solemn literary work
Etymology
Origin of lucubration
1585–95; < Latin lūcubrātiōn- (stem of lūcubrātiō ) night-work. See lucubrate, -ion
Example Sentences
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Some may see our lucubration as we saw it, and others may see nothing but a drunken dream or the nightmare of a distempered imagination.
From Canterbury Pieces by Butler, Samuel
Some may see our lucubration as we saw it; and others may see nothing but a drunken dream, or the nightmare of a distempered imagination.
From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Butler, Samuel
In my last lucubration I proposed the general use of water gruel, and hinted that it might not be amiss at this very season.
From Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer by Steele, Richard, Sir
As a supporter of the last reign, he was dreading the vengeance of the people so far as concerned his estates in Champagne when Frederick's lucubration fell into his hands.
From Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man by Flaubert, Gustave
In 1845 his famous poem, The Raven, came out, and in 1848 Eureka, a Prose Poem, a pseudo-scientific lucubration.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)
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