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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

dilucular en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /daɪˈluːkjəlɚ/ (US)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dīlūculum + -ar.

Meanings

  1. Of or pertaining to dawn.
    • ...and there is a tale of his grappling with a fierce mastiff which attacked him before daylight in the garden of a house where he was staying—for Barrow was another of the dilucular students. 1911, Douglas Macleane, Famous Sermons by English Preachers, Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd.:
    • It has been reserved for the last 20 years to recognize that in the XV century, or what may be called the late dilucular period of modern music, England held the undoubted hegemony of musical Europe ... 1910, C. Maclean, “The Dunstable Inscription in London”, in Sammelbände Der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft, volume 11, number 2, pages 232–249:

Forms

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more dilucular Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most dilucular Degree=Sup lexicographic

Antonyms

crepuscular

Relateds

dawnlike · dilucidate · elucidate

Synonyms

auroral · aurorean · eoan