Lucan

[loo-kuh n]

noun

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, a.d. 39–65, Roman poet, born in Spain.

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Contemporary Examples of lucan

“I regard not finding Lord Lucan as my most spectacular success in journalism,” said Gibbs.
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William Coles
February 26, 2012
Aspinall and Goldsmith definitely had the means and the motive to help Lucan flee.
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February 25, 2012
All these circumstances seem to have driven Lucan over the edge.
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February 25, 2012
Aside from losing his vast fortune to Aspinall, Lucan was also estranged from his wife, Veronica.
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February 25, 2012
Lucan drove 42 miles to the house of Ian and Susan Maxwell-Scott, and used their phone to call his mother.
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February 25, 2012

Historical Examples of lucan

For which reason, Lucan says, that princes feared to discover the future.
The Phantom World
Augustin Calmet
There were but two with him now, Lucan and his brother Bedevere.
King Arthur's Knights
Henry Gilbert
When they had rested Sir Lucan tried to rise, so as to take up the king.
King Arthur's Knights
Henry Gilbert
The Erichtho of Lucan is tedious, disgusting, but sometimes sublime.'
The Superstitions of Witchcraft
Howard Williams
It should not surprise us that Corneille preferred Lucan to Virgil.
A History of French Literature
Edward Dowden

British Dictionary definitions for lucan

Lucan

¹

noun

Latin name Marcus Annaeus Lucanus. 39–65 ad, Roman poet. His epic poem Pharsalia describes the civil war between Caesar and Pompey

Lucan

²

adjective

of or relating to St Luke or St Luke's gospel

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