| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| lucubrate |
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| SYLLABICATION: | lu·cu·brate |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  l  ky -br t |
| INTRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: lu·cu·brat·ed, lu·cu·brat·ing, lu·cu·brates
To write in a scholarly fashion; produce scholarship. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin l cubrre, lcubrt-, to work at night by lamplight. See leuk- in Appendix I.
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