lucubration

kirjallinen teos

pohdinta intense Intense and prolonged study or meditation; especially, late at night
1776, w:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire|The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by w:Edward Gibbon|Edward Gibbon, s:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire/III|chapter III

The virtue of w:Marcus Aurelius|Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was of a severer and more laborious kind. It was the well-earned harvest of many a learned conference, of many a patient lecture, and many a midnight lucubration.

With his own ghostly voice, he had exhorted me, on the sacred consideration of my filial duty and reverence towards him,—who might reasonably regard himself as my official ancestor,—to bring his mouldy and moth-eaten lucubrations before the public.

There is General Blair. True, his lucubrations on negro supremacy are ludicrous enough, but it will not do to speak lightly of his ability. There is power in his organization.