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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

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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.

 

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