v. [f. L. lūcubrāt-, ppl. stem of lūcubrāre, f. lūc-, lūx light.]
I. intr. Literally, To work by artificial light. In mod. use, to produce ‘lucubrations,’ discourse learnedly in writing.
1623. in Cockeram.
1755. in Johnson.
1804. Europ. Mag., XLV. 18. I have often lucubrated for your Magazine.
1817. Byron, Beppo, xlvii. I like to speak and lucubrate my fill.
1824. Arnold, in Life (ed. 5), 75. I could lucubrate largely de omni scibili, but paper happily runs short.
1832. Fraser’s Mag., V. 755. In spite of this neglect Gioja and others have within the last four years flourished and lucubrated in Italy.
1900. Speaker, 29 Dec., 347/1. This is not Mr. Alfred Austin lucubrating in the columns of the Times.
2. trans. To produce (literary compositions) by laborious study. (In recent Dicts.)
Hence † Lucubrated ppl. a. (a) consumed in lucubration; (b) studied or done by artificial light (Bailey, vol. II., 1727).
1645. Quarles, Sol. Recant., I. 8. We … Spare neither sweat nor lucubrated Oyle.
