10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ELUCUBRATION»
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elucubration in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
From the Latin elucubrare (to compose by candlelight), elucubration is the word
to describe staying up late while engaged in putatively productive endeavors, as
opposed to just staying up late and watching TV. Elumbated (adj.) “Weakened in
...
These two terms are correlative, the real outside meaning and the elucubration of
knowledge. This is why Lacan's later teaching consists in unraveling, in
psychoanalysis, the real and knowledge. It is a teaching of which the stakes, the ...
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A French and English dictionary
(i-íiou'-kiou-bré-ted) adj. [elaborate] Poli, travaillé, limé. ELUCUBRATION (i-liou-
kiou-brf-- cheuuf) я. [lucubration] Élucubration, f. To ELUDE (i-lioude ) -INO, -ED,
v. a. [to wave, to avoid by artifice] éluder, éviter, etqm- ver. , ELUDED (i-liou'-ded)
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Joseph Wilson (Professor in St. Gregory's College.),
1833
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Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History ...
But on Scripture revelation Newton was hyper-orthodox. ln his elucubration on
Daniel he insisted that 'the authority of emperors, kings, and princes is human.
The authority of councils, synods, bishops, and presbyters is human. The
authority of ...
Robert Chambers, David Patrick,
1902
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The North British Review
J ns'r as Shakespeare was ignored or neglected for half a century in England, so
in Germany during the epoch of Kantian and Hegelian supremacy Leibniz was
scarcely known except by name. It is only since the elucubration of new systems,
...
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The Church and the Gentile World at the First Promulgation ...
Yes, Reuss gave birth to the very pleasant imagination, that if anybody in the
second century thought of the canon of Holy Scriptures, it was the heretics, who
took the trouble of collecting the apostolic writings, as a basis for the elucubration
of ...
Augustus J. Thébaud,
1878
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Chamber's Cyclopaedia of English Literature
In his elucubration on Daniel he insisted that 'the authority of emperors, kings,
and princes is human. The authority of councils, synods, bishops, and presbyters
is human. The authority of the prophets is divine, and comprehends the sum of ...
Robert Chambers, David Patrick,
1910
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An Etymological Dictionary of the French Language: Crowned ...
Elucubration, sf. a lucubration ; from L. elucu b rati one m. Eluder, va. to elude;
from L. eludere. Elysee, sm. elysium; from L. elysium. EMAIL, sm. enamel ;
formerly esmail, It. smalto; of Germ, origin, O. H.G. smalti, that which has been
fused, ...
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Louise de Keroualle, duchess of Portsmouth, 1649-1734: or, ...
He gave to this nobleman a second bribe of 2,000 guineas, and was soon after,
under a clumsy pretext, asked for a third.1 Indeed, in a vague elucubration,
having a cock- and-bull flavour, Montagu told the ambassador of Louis that he
would ...
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The Works of W. E. Henley: Essays
[One very frantic, desperate, and loverlike elucubration from Byron, in which the
writer protests himself ready ' to obey, to honour, love, and fly with you, when,
where, and how yourself . . . may determine ' : the sort of composition, in fact,
which ...
William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson,
1908
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ELUCUBRATION»
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Spelling musical puts fun in dysfunction
... isn't going to break any Buddy Holly records as far as musicals go, but all the cast and crew's elucubration was well worth the effort. The 25th ... «Saskatoon StarPhoenix, Apr 15»
Spelling bee play puts the fun back into dysfunction
... isn't going to break any Buddy Holly records as far as musicals go, but all the cast and crew's elucubration was well worth the effort. «Saskatoon StarPhoenix, Apr 15»
Elucubration du jour: Renault Laguna Cabriolet
Premièrement, j'ai choisi de placer cette news sous la rubrique "élucubration du jour". Dans une élucubration, évidemment, on échafaude, ... «Caradisiac.com, Mar 08»