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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin diluculum + -ar.
Pronunciation
Adjective
dilucular (comparative more dilucular, superlative most dilucular)
- Of or pertaining to dawn.
- Synonyms: auroral, aurorean, eoan
- Antonym: crepuscular
1910, C. Maclean, “The Dunstable Inscription in London”, in Sammelbände Der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft, volume 11, number 2, pages 232–249: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 ...
1911, Douglas Macleane, Famous Sermons by English Preachers, Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd.:...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.
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