单词 | elucubration |
释义 | elucubrationn.ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > study > [noun] > laborious study > at night lucubration1596 elucubration1643 1643 Sober Sadness 6 After so many monethes elucubrations. 1697 J. Evelyn Numismata ix. 305 Macerating Studies and Elucubrations. 1775 in J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. 2. concrete. The product or result of studying or composing by candle-light: hence gen. any literary composition. Cf. lucubration n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > regarded as the result of labour > carefully elaborated lucubration1611 elucubration1664 1664 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix To Rdr. 185 Those worthily-magnified elucubrations of Mr. Joseph Mede. 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 272 S. Cyrillus..whose most Erudite Elucubrations were printed at Paris. 1859 F. Mahony Rel. Father Prout 168 Such is the perfume that breathes from thy chest of posthumous elucubrations. Derivatives elucubrationary adj. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > study > [adjective] > studying at night candle-wasting1600 elucubrationary1716 society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [adjective] > carefully elaborated elucubrationary1716 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 383 Those corrupt Elucubrationary mixtures of Orthodoxy and inoculated Heterodoxy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < |
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