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lucubration|l(j)uːkjuːˈbreɪʃən|
[ad. L. lūcubrātiōn-em, n. of action f. lūcubrāre to lucubrate.]
1. The action or occupation of lucubrating; nocturnal study or meditation; study in general; an instance of this.
1595Bell Surv. Popery Ep. Ded., Who haue spared no labour, no watchinges, no lucubrations, to atchieue exact knowledge in the holie scriptures. 1649Evelyn Liberty & Servitude iv. Misc. Writ. (1805) 25 The very lamp of earth wherewithall he used to illuminate his lucubrations, was sold for three thousand drachmas. a1658Cleveland Wks. (1687) 63 Life is, since he is gone, But a Nocturnal Lucubration. 1709Steele Tatler No. 140 ⁋1 That state of Mind which is proper for Lucubration. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. iii. I. 79 The virtue of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was..the well-earned harvest of..many a midnight lucubration. 1817Coleridge Lay Serm. 403 If Plato himself were to return and renew his sublime lucubrations. 1847tr. Feuchtersleben's Psychical Med. 296 Immoderate lucubration with overstrained mental exertion. 1875Cusin tr. F. Godet's Luke II. 40 The light which the Rabbins had not found, or had lost, in their theological lucubrations.
2. quasi-concr. Usually pl. 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.
1611Coryat Crudities 432 His learned lucubrations and most solid workes of Diuinity. 1622Wotton in Reliq. (1672) 248 Which unfinished lucubration (for so I may justly call it, having been for the most part born in the night). 1693N. Mather Pref. to Owen's Holy Spirit 4 There are some other Lucubrations of his on Subjects nearly allied unto these. 1709Steele & Swift Tatler No. 70 ⁋2 Having read your Lucubrations of the 10th Instant. 1745Fielding True Patriot Wks. 1775 IX. 285 The encouragement with which those lucubrations are read, may seem..more difficult to be accounted for. 1791Boswell Johnson 20 Mar. an. 1750, Unconnected fragments of his lucubrations were purposely jumbled together. c1800K. White Rem. (1837) 385 A future number of my lucubrations. 1828J. Ballantyne Exam. Hum. Mind 26, I have divided my Lucubrations into Four Parts. 1862Carlyle Fredk. Gt. viii. v. (1872) III. 36 We search in vain through tons of dusty lucubration. 1876A. Laing Lindores Abb. xiii. 127 [She] endeavoured to turn his pious lucubrations into French Verse. |