different between lucubratory vs lucubrate

English

Etymology

Latin lucubratorius.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??kju?b??t??i/, /l??kju?b??t?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /l??kjub??t??i/, /lu?kjub??t??i/

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin l?cubr?tus, perfect passive participle of l?cubr? (“work by candlelight”), from l?x (“light”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lu?.kj?.b?e?t/

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.
   • 1991 December, K. Boo, “The organization woman”, in The Washington Monthly, volume 23, issue 12, page 44:

     Instead, as Oklahoma’s tenure committee lucubrated over Hill’s future, […]

2. To work or write like a scholar.
   • 1846, Nathaniel Chipman, in Daniel Chipman, The Life of Hon. Nathaniel Chipman, LL.D., p. 261,

     […] I shall not hesitate to repeat some of my former thoughts, when lucubrating upon the same subject.

Synonyms

Derived terms

• lucubrated (obsolete)

Related terms

• elucubrate
• lucubration
• lucubratist (obsolete)
• lucubrator
• lucubratory

Translations

Anagrams

• tubercula

Latin

Verb

l?cubr?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of l?cubr?