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lucubrates

lucubrates is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 lucubrates

What is lucubrates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Lucubrates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lucubrate.

Words near lucubrates in the dictionary

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

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