Meaning of candlewaster | Babel Free

Definitions

One who consumes candles by staying up late reading and studying; a student.

derogatory, obsolete

Examples

“If such a one will smile and stroke his beard, / And, sorrow wag, cry 'hem!' when he should groan, / Patch grief with proverbs, make misfortune drunk / With candle-wasters—bring him yet to me, / And I of him will gather patience.”

“Heart, was there ever so prosperous an invention thus unluckily perverted and spoiled by a whoreson book-worm, a candle-waster?”

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