OF THE LAMP


Meaning of OF THE LAMP in English

adverb (or adjective)

: of laborious study or excogitation : of strain or effort : without spontaneity, inspiration, or reality

refined or artificial, smelling a little of the lamp — B.N.Cardozo

a theory born of the lamp — Russell Lord

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.