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Definition of Elucubrations
1. elucubration [n] - See also: elucubration
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elucubrations
Literary usage of Elucubrations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies on the Neoplatonist Hierocles by Ilsetraut Hadot (2004)
"We shall conclude that they did not interpret the elucubrations of the ...
of the "elucubrations of the Pythagoreans"—Origen rejected Plotinus' One (hen), ..."
2. The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton (1913)
"... drooping under the lengthy elucubrations of the minister and the President of
the Temperance Society, called on the orator of the day for a few remarks. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"His philosophical and theological elucubrations caused him to be tried for heresy
by the Curia at Naples, but the trial was discontinued through the ..."
4. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1848)
"But being always burdened with many bodily infirmities, he was never able to
polish any of his elucubrations to render them fit for the public, ..."
5. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1868)
"I heare also, that the Bp of Asaph hath some elucubrations upon that book, which
he intended to publish, but whither he hath don it or no, I cannot tell. w ..."
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