lucubrare

lucubrare [CL] 1 a to work or study by lamplight at night, or diligently. b to stay awake, keep watch at night; c (for religious observance). a in tam tristi pallore ~antium W. Malm. GR III 292; studio vestro ‥ sex septimanis paulominus ~avi Id. Wulfst. III epil. p. 67; Seneca, ne iners ‥ repperiretur, se testatur longe plus olei ad ~andum quam vini ad potandum expendisse Gir. SD 58; neque Gabriel te / digna musa, digno celte / lucubrando pingeret Walt. Wimb. Virgo 139. b ~antes, vigilantes GlC L 286; Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 308 (v. lucubrum 1a); pernoctare, vigilare, ~are ‥ Ib. 467; cum ‥ ad igniculum quem sibi ‥ congesserat uno ‥ comitatus puerulo ~asset Gir. TH II 19 p. 101. c noctibus ‥ ~abat ipse sibi pernox in gratiarum actione et psalmorum cantu W. Malm. GR I 61 p. 65; dum ‥ celestibus ‥ ~aret excubiis Ib. II 221; cui noctium principio ante sanctorum reliquias ~are solito Id. GP II 75 p. 163. 2 to shine faintly, glimmer. ~o, to wake [cf. 1b supra] or to glemere (Medulla) MED s. v. glimeren b; to glymer, sublucere, ~are CathA.

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