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n. -A solemn literary work that is the product of a lot of thought and study.

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  • Four days after this learned 'lucubration' the voice of the warm-hearted magistrate speaks in a reminder of the prevailing abject misery of the London poor who “in the...
  • In this lucubration the Man in the Moon shows the Man of the
  • Mr. Charming is a boon, and we would not have missed his lucubration on any account.
  • I would like to have a meditation, a rumination, a lucubration, a bombination, about the prostate.
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