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[loo'-kyoo-BRAY-shahn] 
1. long, laborious study or contemplation, especially at night; cogitation; meditation: "I aced his class, but my endless hours of lucubration that semester stunted my social life and eliminated any possibility for romance."
2. (usually used in the plural) a written work resulting from prolonged, laborious effort or study, often taking a pedantic or pretentious tone
Origin:
Approximately 1595; from Latin, 'lucubration-,' from 'lucubratio': study by night, work produced at night, from 'lucubrare': to work by lamplight. In action:
"To understand such art-world mysteries, it must also be understood that the academic and curatorial elites who nowadays are in a position to nominate contemporary talent for stardom have agendas which often have little or nothing to do with artistic excellence. They actually seem to prefer low-level art of this sort, if only because it is so crucially dependent upon the lucubrations of the academics and curators themselves for providing it with a significance that the work itself, unaided by cataracts of artspeak, cannot achieve on its own."
Hilton Kramer. "Why Give So Much Space To Lightweight Twombly?" The New York Observer (June 18, 2001).
"Nor do I doubt that ingenious and learned mathematicians will sustain me, if they are willing to recognize and weigh, not superficially, but with that thoroughness which Philosophy demands above all things, those matters which have been adduced by me in this work to demonstrate these theories. In order, however, that both the learned and the unlearned equally may see that I do not avoid anyone�s judgment, I have preferred to dedicate these lucubrations of mine to Your Holiness rather than to any other, because, even in this remote corner of the world where I live, you are considered to be the most eminent man in dignity of rank and in love of all learning and even of mathematics, so that by your authority and judgment you can easily suppress the bites of slanderers, albeit the proverb hath it that there is no remedy for the bite of a sycophant. If perchance there shall be idle talkers, who, though they are ignorant of all mathematical sciences, nevertheless assume the right to pass judgment on these things, and if they should dare to criticise and attack this theory of mine because of some passage of Scripture which they have falsely distorted for their own purpose, I care not at all; I will even despise their judgment as foolish."
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473�1543). Polish astronomer. [Dedication of the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies to Pope Paul III.]"
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