over-tediousadj.

1483 tr. Adam of Eynsham Reuelation xxxvii Ȝef y schulde sey or be aboute to schew & declare synglerly the peynys & tormentys of euery syngler cryme..hit wulde be ouer teduse and weriful to the redder therof.

1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe ii. sig. c. vi^v To shewe all their vnhappines So abhominable and shamles It wer ouer tedious and longe.

c1550 Clariodus (1830) iii. 121 And upon groufe fell on his bed adoune, Making ane sorrowfull lamentatioun; Quhilk war ouer tedious heir for to rehearse.

1586 W. Clagett Paraphr. 6th Chapter St. John Pref. p. xvii To whom I refer you, that I may not be over-tedious.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iii. vii. 43 Speake on, but be not ouer-tedious . View more context for this quotation

1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron ii. vii What honourable love and respect I found in the company of those Gentlemen and their Wives..the historie would be overtedious in reporting.

1668 in H. More's Divine Dialogues (1713) Pref. 15 I have too long detained thee by an over-tedious Preface.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. xxix. 187 Can you think it an unpardonable intrusion on your condescending goodness, that I make the time of my return to my Miss Byron not over-tedious?

1926 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 21 138 So long as this magnitude is but a small multiple of the unit of recorded measure this process is not over-tedious.

1992 Ann. of Statist. 20 1690 We anticipate that the exact posterior mean matrix of A would possess even better risk properties, but these are overtedious to compute.