Word of the Day for Thursday, June 9, 2011
lucubrate \LOO-kyoo-breyt\, verb:
1. To work, write, or study laboriously, especially at night.
2. To write learnedly.
While conservatives lucubrate, the B.O. confiscates!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
He gives me to understand that you chew various cuds of reflection; that you lucubrate ominously day and night.-- Edgar Lee Masters, Skeeters Kir: a novel
Nature designed that I should lucubrate for the high-heeled sock; managers have resolved that I shall scribble for the low-heeled buskin.-- Charles Dickens, Tragic Case of a Common Writer
Lucubrate derives from the Latin lucubratus, "to work by artificial light."
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