- elaborate: add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"
- (lucubration) a solemn literary work that is the product of laborious cogitation
- To work diligently by artificial light; to study at night; To work or write like a scholar
- (lucubration) The product of such study; often, writings
- (lucubration) laborious study or writing [often in pl.] (humorous usage suggesting pedantry)
- (Lucubration) Belabored study; serious treatise; product of long and serious thought.
- to write in scholarly fashion