Lucriferous

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    gainful; profitable obsolete

    "[B]eing a bachelor, and through God's bounty furnished with a competent estate for a younger brother, and freed from any ambition to leave my heirs rich, I had no need to pursue lucriferous experiments, to which I so much preferred luciferous ones"

Synonyms

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gainful

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"[B]eing a bachelor, and through God's bounty furnished with a competent estate for a younger brother, and freed from any ambition to leave my heirs rich, I had no need to pursue lucriferous experiments, to which I so much preferred luciferous ones"

Etymology

From Latin lucrum (“gain”) + -ferous.

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