1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 323 It having been a Day of great Fatigue to me.

1776 Trial Maha Rajah Nundocomar for Forgery 32/2 Imminent danger of expiring from fatigue.

1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico III. vii. iii. 295 Extremities of famine and fatigue.

1874 J. Morley On Compromise 7 The mortal fatigue that seizes Catholic societies after their fits of revolution.

1854 Braithwaite in Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 13 463 Many..accidents on railways..are to be ascribed to that progressive action which may be termed the ‘fatigue of metals’.

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 827/1 To fatigue is ascribed the breaking of car-axles.

1885 Engineering 10 July 31 The law of the fatigue and refreshment of metals.

1913 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 13 Dec. 372 (heading) A recently installed fatigue testing machine.

1937 Discovery July 194/2 The fatigue resistance of some metals.

1949 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 53 788/2 A ray of hope that non-ferrous alloys could be developed which would show similar features in lack of ‘fatigue-memory’ to the ferritic steels.

1955 Times 8 July 5/1 Her Royal Highness drove across the airfield to see a Bristol Britannia airliner undergoing metal fatigue tests in a water tank.

1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) II. 284/2 The only examples of a fatigue fracture in bone are those seen usually in military training,..in which a soldier not previously used to repetitive exercise is forced to march 30 or 40 miles in a single day.

1872 J. H. Bennett Text-bk. Physiol. I. 83 (heading) Muscular fatigue.

1876 Kirkes' Hand-bk. Physiol. (ed. 9) xix. 586 Fatigue of muscle.—A muscle becomes rapidly exhausted from repeated stimulation.

1888 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. (ed. 5) I. 149 The sense of fatigue of which, after prolonged or unusual exertion, we are conscious in our own bodies..cannot be taken as an adequate measure of the actual fatigue of the muscles.

1891 A. D. Waller Introd. Human Physiol. xii. 448 Negative after-images are the most obvious sign of retinal—or properly speaking—of retino-cerebral fatigue.

1932 S. Duke-Elder Text-bk. Ophthalmol. I. xxiv. 969 The lowered visual acuity which is readily demonstrable on continued observation..is due to fatigue in mental or even general bodily processes... Of retinal fatigue there seems to be no evidence.

1949 E. G. Wever Theory of Hearing xii. 322 The specificity of the fatigue effect..is studied by exposing the ear to one tone and then testing with various other tones above and below.

1966 Lancet 12 Mar. 585/2 True muscular fatigue and what, for want of a better term, must be called tiredness are plainly different.

1877 W. Thomson in Encycl. Brit. VII. 802/1 Experimental exercises..brought to light some very remarkable and interesting results,..showing also a very remarkable fatigue of elasticity, according to which a wire which had been kept vibrating for several hours or days through a certain range came to rest much quicker when left to itself than when set in vibration after it had been at rest for several days and then immediately left to itself.

1895 Proc. Royal Soc. 68 136 In every case, overstrain has produced a like fatigue of elasticity, and elastic recovery has followed during an interval of some days or weeks of rest.

1899 Nature 6 July 239/2 Experiments on an iron wire..showed distinct fatigue of elasticity.

1899 W. Watson Text-bk. Physics xix. 205 This phenomenon is referred to as elastic fatigue.

1920 A. E. H. Love Treat. Math. Theory Elasticity (ed. 3) iv. 117 An analogous property of bodies is that to which Lord Kelvin has called attention under the name ‘fatigue of elasticity’.

1922 Proc. Physical Soc. 35 165 In his own experience of electrometers elastic fatigue appeared to be due mainly to the attachment at the two ends of the suspension wire.

1904 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 202 443 At pressures below, say, a tenth of an atmosphere, zinc showed little or no signs of fatigue when illuminated by ultra-violet light.

1949 G. F. J. Garlick Luminescent Materials vii. 187 The saturation of the screen material by electrons at low voltages..results in a fatigue of the material.

1776 A. Ward in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 191 I..have ordered all the men, not on actual duty, to turn out upon fatigue every day.

1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 275 The levelling of ground in the vicinity of the Camp or Barracks, and making communications between different parts of them, are duties of fatigue.

1881 Through the Ranks to a Commission 57 For the two weeks that I was a private I took my turn at the daily fatigues.

1836 J. Hildreth Dragoon Campaigns Rocky Mts. i. vii. 51 We have not yet received our uniforms..but even in our ‘fatigues’, we make an imposing appearance when mounted.

1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 135/2 Fatigue..a party of soldiers told off for any other duty than a dress parade necessitates.

1892 W. G. Browne in 19th Cent. Nov. 850 Change into stable fatigues.

1966 D. F. Galouye Lost Perception viii. 85 Clad in ill-fitting and occasionally torn fatigues, the soldiers were a vivid contrast to the flawlessly uniformed Guardsmen.

1967 Boston (Mass.) Herald 5 Apr. 59/3 The generals..in their ‘pressed fatigues and shining stars’.

1970 Daily Tel. 6 Oct. 4/4 A Palestinian major, dressed in jungle green fatigues.

1890 Cent. Mag. Aug. 617/2 A thin fatigue blouse.

1861 R. A. Wise Let. 9 Jan. in Wm. & Mary Coll. Q. 2nd Ser. XVIII. 197 Their uniform is to be home spun pantaloons and a red flannel shirt and a fatigue cap.

1914 E. A. Powell Fighting in Flanders vi. 139 Small, round, visorless fatigue-caps.

1803 M. Lewis Jrnl. (1905) VIII. 233, 20 Fatigue Frocks or hunting shirts.

a1847 in H. Howe Hist. Coll. Ohio (1847) 490 It was at night..and they [sc. the soldiers] were dressed in fatigue frocks.

1852 C. J. Lever Daltons II. iv. 35 A creature that..carries a bread bag over its shoulder through the streets in a fatigue jacket.

1813 Weekly Reg. 3 295/2 Fatigue trowsers.

1836 J. Hildreth Dragoon Campaigns Rocky Mts. i. iii. 28 Attired in what I afterwards learned to be the fatigue uniform.

1890 Illustr. London News Christmas No. 2/1 A grey fatigue-uniform.

1774 J. Andrews Let. 28 Sept. (1886) 57 A number of fatigue men with hand barrows.

1871 L. W. M. Lockhart Fair to See III. xxxi. 49 Laissez-aller hospital orderlies and sluggish ‘fatigue~men’.

1957 M. K. Joseph I'll soldier no More (1958) xiii. 255 Tino and a couple of fatigue-men have sweated in the cookhouse.

1693 London Gaz. No. 2911/3 Many false Allarms to harass and fatigue their Men.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 192 Five of them..extreamely fatigued themselves in pursuing them [sc. cattle].

1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 706 Heroes and their feats Fatigued me.

1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold II. vi. vii. 143 Thou fatiguest thyself in vain.

1863 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation 34 My morning's work had fatigued me.

1872 J. H. Bennett Text-bk. Physiol. I. 83 The muscles of a strong man are not so easily fatigued as those of a weak one.

1885 W. Stirling tr. L. Landois Text-bk. Human Physiol. II. x. 668 Loads may be suspended to perfectly passive muscles without fatiguing them.

1896 W. P. Lombard in W. H. Howell Amer. Text-bk. Physiol. ii. 97 It is doubtful whether nerves are fatigued by the process of conduction.

1954 E. G. Wever & M. Lawrence Physiol. Acoustics ix. 157 The ear is strongly fatigued with a tone of a certain frequency..and then is stimulated with two primary tones of adjacent frequencies.

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship II. 273 Augmenting the number of sails..at the risque of fatiguing the masts.

1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding v. 83 To render the angle-iron frames less fatigued.

1899 J. A. Ewing Strength of Materials iii. 56 A piece which has been fatigued by many variations of stress.

1905 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. 67 491 A broad face of a specimen of oblong section is polished, and the specimen is then fatigued.

1925 S. P. Timoshenko & J. M. Lessells Appl. Elasticity xvi. 464 The material, after being fatigued, showed an increase in angular strain when frequency of alternation was decreased.

1962 A. J. Kennedy Processes Creep & Fatigue in Metals v. 298 The fracture hardness was lower for copper specimens fatigued at 20 × 10³ p.s.i. than for those fatigued at 16 × 10³ p.s.i.