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from The Century Dictionary.

Composed by candle-light; pertaining to nocturnal study or serious thought.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

adjective Composed by candlelight, or by night; of or pertaining to night studies; laborious or painstaking.

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adjective Composed by candlelight, or at night.

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Latin lucubratorius.

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And by close application to my book at night, my visage became considerally emaciated by extreme perspiration, having no lucubratory aparatus, no candle, no lamp, nor even light-wood, being chiefly raised in oaky woods.

The poetical works of George M. Horton : the colored bard of North Carolina : to which is prefixed the life of the author, written by himself, 1880

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EAMHarris commented on the word lucubratory

Lucubratory is a new word for me. A special word for 'composed by candlelight' – fab. Do we also have a word for 'composed by electric light'? or torchlight, firelight, daylight?

November 15, 2012
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November 17, 2012