lugubriate

English

Etymology

From lugubrious; see -ate.

Verb

lugubriate (third-person singular simple present lugubriates, present participle lugubriating, simple past and past participle lugubriated)

1. (transitive, intransitive, rare) To render, become, or be lugubrious.
2. (very rare, intransitive) To be the etiology of lugubriousness in general.
   • 2011, John Mauldin, Just One Thing: Twelve of the World's Best Investors Reveal the One Strategy You Can't Overlook, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (unpaginated)

     Such litanies of equilibrium in economics annually agitate the Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland, and lugubriate in the worldly wisdom of such sages.

   • 1882, Grip Print. & Publishing Company - Canada, Grip - Volume 18, A Political Novel of the Nineteenth Century - Pages 1-3

     He who culminates his nature's wealth will ne'er lugubriate by stealth.

   • 1999, Geraldine and Elizabeth Poline, Poet Lore - Volume 94, Poet-lore Company, page 43

     I've listened to Leonard Cohen lugubriate his erotic evasions, and to Van the Man rave on about the blues and Debussy, to Doc Cook, the Good Father of my college days, rhapsodize about Emerson's bare puddle vastations.