单词 | travailous |
释义 | travailousadj. Now rare and chiefly literary. Characterized by or involving great effort, exertion, pain, or discomfort; laborious, exhausting; arduous, difficult. Cf. travailsome adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [adjective] > difficult or laborious strongc1175 travailousa1382 laborousc1405 laboriousc1410 travailsome1549 laboursome1551 rigorousa1564 Herculean1594 surly1609 Augean1724 dreich1804 the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adjective] > laborious or toilsome soreOE workfulOE hardOE torc1175 beswinkfulc1230 heavya1325 sweatyc1374 travailousa1382 laboriousa1393 laborousc1405 winful1443 painfulc1480 toilous1530 operousa1538 drudging1548 travailsome1549 laboursome1551 moilingc1566 toilsome?1570 toilful1573 sweating1592 insudate1609 sweatfula1618 moliminous1656 operose1659 swinking1693 schleppy1978 the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > causing weariness or exhaustion > esp. through labour travailousa1382 laboriousc1410 travailsome1549 break-back1556 toilsome?1570 toilful1573 back-aching1603 back-breaking1904 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Ecclus. vii. 16 Hate þou not trauailous werkis. ?c1430 (?1383) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 273 Þe opyn meke and pore and traveilouse lif of Crist. a1475 tr. Gilbertus Anglicus Pharmaceutical Writings (Wellcome) (1991) 216 (MED) If þe distempering be of cold..he is sluggi, but his slepe is trauelous. 1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede Hist. Church Eng. i. xii. f. 21v Then the Romans toulde the Brytans playne, that it was not for their ease to take any more such trauaylous iourneis for their defence. ?1790 J. Stonhouse Apostolical Conceptions of God: 2nd Pt. 131 The good heart therefore consists in firmness to ask, to seek, to knock, as for a promise extraordinary, creative, generative, travailous. 1887 ‘P. Cushing’ Dr. Cæsar Crowl II. xi. 239 For Tom had somehow divined that his father's taciturnity was..an excrescent growth that fed on his travailous sorrow for his dead wife. 2014 @ShykeLuvAll 28 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 4 Apr. 2019) Life goes on whether you like it or not. Make the best of it and move on with it no matter how travailous it can be. DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adverb] > causing weariness or exhaustion travailouslya1382 wearisomelyc1735 fatiguingly1807 wearingly1870 exhaustingly1882 tiringly1894 costingly1926 gruellingly1973 the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [adverb] > with difficulty or laboriously travailouslya1382 laborously?a1425 laboriouslyc1487 arduously1753 the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adverb] > laboriously travailouslya1382 laboursomely1552 laboriously?1611 toilsomely1614 moilingly1621 operosely1668 operously1668 moliminously1678 toilingly1731 toilfully1820 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Wisd. xv. 7 The crockere, the nesshe erthe threstende, trauailously [L. laboriose] maketh to oure vses eche vessel. c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 268 Bi þe settyng of þis hors so bisili and so traveilosely a werk wherbi he schal be worun out..wiþynne x yeris. a1500 (?c1378) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 439 Þei [sc. shepherds] moten lyue trewely, trauelously & perelously, siþen þei moten putte þer oune lif for þer sheep, as crist dide. 1881 Times of India 14 May 2/7 Another evening I met a small beetle, travailously rolling along a round ball of nutritious earthy matter, in which she proposed to bring up her family. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1382 |
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