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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To produce (a written work) by working long and diligently.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Same as lucubrate.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To solve, write or compose by working studiously at night; to study.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. obsolete See lucubrate.

Etymologies

  1. From the past participle of Latin elucubrare ‘compose by lamplight’. (Wiktionary)
  2. Back-formation from elucubration. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. burn the midnight oil
  1. pull an all-nighter

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  • whichbe To work out or express by studious effort; to burn the midnight oil. May 12, 2008

  • jaime_d from the Ring and the Book. Sep 30, 2007

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