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lucubrating

lucubrating is the present participle and gerund 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 lucubrating

What is lucubrating the present participle and gerund of?
Lucubrating is the present participle and gerund of lucubrate.

Words near lucubrating in the dictionary

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

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