What's the difference between elucubrate and lucubrate?

Elucubrate


Definition:

  • (v. i.) See Lucubrate.

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Lucubrate


Definition:

  • (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 …).

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