antelucan

English

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antelucan (not comparable)

  1. Of, occurring in, or relating to the postmidnight.
  2. Before dawn.
    • 1887, Thomas Hardy, chapter 4, in The Woodlanders, London: Macmillan:
      [I]n the lonely antelucan hour, when grey shades, material and mental, are so very grey.
  3. (ecclesiastic) At night, especially of early Christian assemblies held in secret.

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