candlewasting

English

Etymology

candle +‎ wasting

Adjective

candlewasting (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete, pejorative) Causing a waste of candles by studying late into the night.
    • 1600, Blount, Edward, transl., The Hospitall of Incurable Fooles‎, translation of L'Hospidale de' pazzi incurabili by Garzoni, Tomaso:
      […] when I (which haue known you better and more inwardly, then a thousand of these Candle-wasting-Booke Wormes) can affirme you to be the most bounteous, open-handed, firme, vnswayed, constant Ladie vnder Heauen.
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