Word Meanings - LUCUBRATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The act of lucubrating, or studying by candlelight; nocturnal study; meditation. After long lucubration I have hit upon such an expedient. Goldsmith. 2. That which is composed by night; that which is produced by meditation in retirement; hence
Additional info about word: LUCUBRATION
1. The act of lucubrating, or studying by candlelight; nocturnal study; meditation. After long lucubration I have hit upon such an expedient. Goldsmith. 2. That which is composed by night; that which is produced by meditation in retirement; hence any literary composition. Thy lucubrations have been perused by several of our friends. Tatler.
Related words: (words related to LUCUBRATION)
- NIGHT-FARING
Going or traveling in the night. Gay. - COMPOSITOUS
Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin. - AFTERCAST
A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower. - PRODUCIBILITY
The quality or state of being producible. Barrow. - NOCTURNAL
1. Of, pertaining to, done or occuring in, the night; as, nocturnal darkness, cries, expedition, etc.; -- opposed to Ant: diurnal. Dryden. 2. Having a habit of seeking food or moving about at night; as, nocturnal birds and insects. - NIGHTMAN
One whose business is emptying privies by night. - AFTER
To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts - AFTERPAINS
The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth. - PRODUCEMENT
Production. - COMPOSURE
1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure and teaching. Evelyn. 2. Orderly adjustment; disposition. Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles. - COMPOSSIBLE
Able to exist with another thing; consistent. Chillingworth. - COMPOSE
To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all - NIGHTLONG
Lasting all night. - COMPOSER
1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and - EXPEDIENTIAL
. Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy. "Calculating, expediential understanding." Hare. -- Ex*pe`di*en"tial*ly , adv. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - AFTERSHAFT
The hypoptilum. - AFTERPIECE
The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment. - NOCTURNALLY
By night; nightly. - NIGHTSHADE
A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. Deadly nightshade. Same as Belladonna - KNIGHTLESS
Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser. - ALLNIGHT
Light, fuel, or food for the whole night. Bacon. - INDECOMPOSABLENESS
Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability. - UNKNIGHT
To deprive of knighthood. Fuller. - MIDNIGHT SUN
The sun shining at midnight in the arctic or antarctic summer. - HEREHENCE
From hence. - SEVENNIGHT
A week; any period of seven consecutive days and nights. See Sennight. - WHENCEFORTH
From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser. - FORTNIGHT
The space of fourteen days; two weeks. (more info) nights, our ancestors reckoning time by nights and winters; so, also, - DECOMPOSE
To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay. - MIDNIGHT
The middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Shak.