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Lucubrate

//ˈluː.kjə.bɹeɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To work diligently by artificial light; to study at night. rare

    "Instead, as Oklahoma’s tenure committee lucubrated over Hill’s future, […]"

  2. 2
    add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing wordnet
  3. 3
    To work or write like a scholar.

    "1846, Nathaniel Chipman, in Daniel Chipman, The Life of Hon. Nathaniel Chipman, LL.D., p. 261, […] I shall not hesitate to repeat some of my former thoughts, when lucubrating upon the same subject."

Etymology

First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin lūcubrātus, perfect passive participle of lūcubrō (“to work by candlelight”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from lūx (“light”).

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