lucriferous en · ADJ
Etymology
From Latin lucrum (“gain”) + -ferous.
Meanings
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(obsolete) gainful; profitable
[B]eing a bachelor, and through God's bounty furnished with a competent estate for a younger brother, and freed from any ambition to leave my heirs rich, I had no need to pursue lucriferous experiments, to which I so much preferred luciferous ones
1774, Robert Boyle, “The Life of the Honourable Robert Boyle”, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Thomas Birch, page cxxx:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most lucriferous | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more lucriferous | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |