lucubratory

English

Etymology

Latin lucubratorius.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ləˈkjuːbɹətəɹi/, /ləˈkjuːbɹətɹi/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ləˈkjubɹətɔɹi/, /luˈkjubɹətɔɹi/

Adjective

lucubratory (not comparable)

  1. Composed by candlelight, or at night.
    • December 21, 1711, Alexander Pope, letter to H. Cromwell
      a solitary candle at your side, to write an epistle lucubratory to your friend

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lucubratory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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