单词 | elucubrate |
释义 | † elucubratev. Obsolete. transitive. To produce (a literary work) by the expenditure of ‘midnight oil’. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > be the author of or write (a work) [verb (transitive)] > compose with much study elucubrate1623 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Elucubrate, to doe a thing by candlelight. a1642 W. Bedell in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus (1651) 73 Many of his noblest Workes he elucubrated at Basil. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Elucubrate, to watch and write by candle-light. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < v.1623 |
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