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lucubrated

lucubrated is the simple past and past participle of lucubrate.

Meaning of lucubrate

Verb

lucubrate (third-person singular simple present lucubrates, present participle lucubrating, simple past and past participle lucubrated)

  1. (rare) To work diligently by artificial light; to study at night.
    • Instead, as Oklahoma’s tenure committee lucubrated over Hill’s future, […]December 1991, K. Boo, “The organization woman”, in The Washington Monthly, volume 23, number 12, page 44
  2. To work or write like a scholar.
    • […] I shall not hesitate to repeat some of my former thoughts, when lucubrating upon the same subject.1846, Nathaniel Chipman, in Daniel Chipman, The Life of Hon. Nathaniel Chipman, LL.D., p. 261

Questions about lucubrated

What is lucubrated the simple past and past participle of?
Lucubrated is the simple past and past participle of lucubrate.

Words near lucubrated in the dictionary

  1. luctations
  2. luctiferous
  3. Lucton
  4. luctual
  5. lucubrate
  6. lucubrated
  7. lucubrates
  8. lucubrating
  9. lucubration
  10. lucubrations
  11. lucubrator

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