单词 | out-toil |
释义 | out-toilv.ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > weary or exhaust [verb (transitive)] > esp. through labour fortravailc1305 overtravaila1382 overdrivea1450 over-labour1530 overwork1530 defatigate?1533 toil1549 forspend1571 out-toil1603 overtoil1607 slave1864 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 506 Because he would thereby vexe, out-toile consume and waste his poore subjects. 1612 R. Daborne Christian turn'd Turke i. l. 150 For whom haue I tane thought, out-watcht the night Out-toyl'd the day, but for my Rabshake? 1676 T. Otway Don Carlos iii. 31 Since my griefs Cowards are, and dare not kill, I'l try to vanquish, and out-toyl the ill. 1681 N. Tate Hist. King Lear v. 58 Together we'll out-toil the spight of Hell, And Die the Wonders of the World. 1801 F. Reynolds Life, a Comedy i. 1 I have out-toil'd my strength. 1859 W. Kirby U.E.: Tale Upper Canada 111 Must they yet writhe beneath th' oppressor's thong, And summoned at the dawn of morning grey In famished herds out-toil the summer-day? 2. transitive. To labour harder or longer than; to surpass in toiling. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > [verb (transitive)] > outdo in working out-toil1603 over-labour1607 outwork1611 the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [verb (transitive)] > perform with labour, toil at > surpass in out-toil1603 over-labour1607 outlabour1609 1603 N. Breton Dialogue Pithe & Pleasure sig. D4v In labour the Oxe will out-toile him. 1685 W. Clarke Grand Tyral ii. ix. 53 Buzzing about this Globe, like Bees in Hive, Where who each other shall out-toile, we strive. 1739 H. Brooke Gustavus Vasa I. i. 4 His Hands out-toil the Hind, while on his Brow Sits Patience, bathed in the laborious Drop Of painful Industry. 1793 H. Boyd Royal Message in Poems Dramatic & Lyric III. i. 348 At home the hind out-toils the travel'd sun, And sees the harvest of his labour, swept Away, to feed the famine of the war. 1795 T. Morton Zorinski i. iv. 17 Sometimes, mocking the horror of his fate, he out toils the slave. 1806 H. Siddons Maid, Wife, & Widow I. 196 He hired himself to a carpenter, and out-toiled all his competitors. 1909 J. London Chinago in Sel. Stories (1982) §4. 838 They worried about little things, and on occasion could out-toil even a Chinago. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1603 |
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