(n.) To study by candlelight or a lamp; to study by night.
(v. t.) To elaborate, perfect, or compose, by night study or by laborious endeavor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Certainly, almost no one seriously addressing the subjects of place and memory – whether in fiction, film, photography or academia – now does so from beyond Sebald's shadow (his writerly camp followers are legion, immediately identifiable by their melancholy lucubrations, the black-and-white photographs that stud their paragraphs, their flourished fetishes for skulls and for silk …).