lucriferous

English

Etymology

From Latin lucrum (“gain”) + -ferous.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs

Adjective

lucriferous (comparative more lucriferous, superlative most lucriferous)

1. (obsolete) gainful; profitable
   • 1774, Robert Boyle, “The Life of the Honourable Robert Boyle”, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle‎^[1], Thomas Birch, page cxxx:

     [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

References

• “lucriferous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.