Lucubration

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Laborious study or meditation.
  • n. Writing produced by laborious effort or study, especially pedantic or pretentious writing. Often used in the plural.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. intense and prolonged study or meditation; especially, late at night
  • n. The product of such study; often, writings.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of lucubrating, or studying by candlelight; nocturnal study; meditation.
  • n. That which is composed by night; that which is produced by meditation in retirement; hence (loosely) any literary composition.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of lucubrating; close study or thought; careful consideration; meditation.
  • n. A product of thought or study; a written composition; an essay or treatise.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a solemn literary work that is the product of laborious cogitation
  • n. laborious cogitation
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