Today's Word "lucubration"
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lucubration \loo-kyoo-BRAY-shun; loo-kuh-\ (noun) - 1. The act of studying by candlelight; nocturnal study; meditation. 2 : That which is composed by night; that which is produced by meditation in retirement; hence (loosely) any literary composition.
"Jean-Jacques' famous letter to Hume is, on the face of it, the lucubration of a monomaniac. It was a lucubration, however, which called for a reply..." -- Francis Henry Gribble, "Rousseau and the Women He Loved"
Lucubration comes from Latin lucubratus, past participle of lucubrare, "to work by night, composed at night (as by candlelight)," ultimately connected with lux, "light." Hence it is related to lucent, "shining, bright," and lucid, "clear." The verb form is lucubrate.
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