lucriferous
English
Adjective
lucriferous (comparative more lucriferous, superlative most lucriferous)
- (obsolete) gainful; profitable
- 1774, Robert Boyle, “The Life of the Honourable Robert Boyle”, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle, 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.
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