elucubration

e·lu·cu·bra·tion

 (ĭ-lo͞o′kyo͝o-brā′shən)
n.
1. The act or process of elucubrating.
2. A written work produced by elucubrating.

[Latin ēlūcubrāre, ēlūcubrāt-, to work at night by lamplight over : ē-, ex-, ex- + lūcubrāre, to work at night by lamplight; see lucubrate.]
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elucubration

(ɪˌluːkjʊˈbreɪʃən)
n
1. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) obsolete the practice of elucubrating
2. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a literary work produced by elucubrating
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Je leur ai deja vu cette figure-la, au moment ou ils organisaient, dans le grenier, une representation, avec costumes, masques, linceuls et chaines trainantes, de leur drame, Le Revenant de la Commanderie, elucubration a laquelle ils ont du une semaine de fievre, peurs nocturnes et langue crayeuse, intoxiques qu'ils etaient de leurs propres fantomes.
Si le psychologue est au psychanalyste ce que le mal voyant est a l'aveugle, comme on le lit dans ce passage sur l'euphemisme, ou l'on trouve d'ailleurs apres le mot aveugle la parenthese "moi-meme je le suis', il ne paraitra pas invraisemblable de voir dans cette elucubration tardive et mineure un temoignage du lien entre l'envahissant complexe paternel et la question de la psychanalyse.
These however are not being provided by university scholars, for whom a bibliography on Jack Vance will not count for tenure or promotion, while some theoretical elucubration will.
So we have possibilities of superiority (refinement), transcendence (religious privilege, as of a chosen people), and artfulness (elucubration), opening up within a simple modifier.
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