What does lucriferous mean?
Lucriferous means (obsolete) gainful; profitable.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(obsolete) gainful; profitable.
[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
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Lucriferous means (obsolete) gainful; profitable.
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[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
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