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Definition of Lucubrating
1. lucubrate [v] - See also: lucubrate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lucubrating
Literary usage of Lucubrating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Yale Literary Magazine by Yale University, Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg (1850)
"and inexperienced legs by chasing the coy and fickle maiden up the steep and
snowcapped hill of science :—or lucubrating, as a Sophomore, ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1823)
"... eloquent pen of Chateaubriand has, on one occasion, so interestingly described.
" I wrapped myself in my cloak,'' says this traveller, while lucubrating ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1844)
"His will has grown imbecile ; when he tries to make the mental machine work, it
is all work and no spontaniety ; lucubrating oil, animal spirits, ..."
4. The Universal Etymological English Dictionary: Containing an Additional ...by Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1737)
"... Matter for lucubrating of Ultra. MUCILAGINOUS ew» [¡n Ав»»ту] MU'CID ..."
5. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"The appointment was unanimously confirmed by the senate; and George, doubtless
constrained by his necessities while lucubrating his new ideas on political ..."
6. The Life of Hon. Nathaniel Chipman, LL.D.: Formerly Member of the United by Daniel Chipman (1846)
"Let me endeavor to show in what this necessity consists ; and in doing this I
shall not hesitate to repeat some of my former thoughts, when lucubrating upon ..."
7. Lectures on the Nature and Use of Money: Delivered Before the Members of the by John Gray (1848)
"... who had recently been lucubrating on the subject in Edinburgh, and of whom I
asserted that it would be but child's play to make mincemeat, I continued:— ..."
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