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unˈlaboured, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
†1. Not cultivated by study. Obs.
c1450Burgh Secrees 1516 These Sevene Sustryn..The nyne musys blame shal in maneere, That they vnlabouryd stant on my partye.
2. Of land: Unworked, untilled, uncultivated.
1473Reg. Cupar Abbey I. 201 Gif thar be ony..that levis ony his land..onlaboryt. a1513Fabyan Chron. vii. ccxix. 241 He destroyed the lande..in suche wyse, that .ix. yeres after..the lande laye vnlabored and vntylled. 1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. 166 Good ground becommeth unfruitfull,..the more it is left unlaboured. 1684T. Burnet Theory Earth I. 243 Seeing it..had a soil so fruitful, a new unlabour'd soil. 1708J. Philips Cyder i. 115 Let thy Ground Not lye unlabour'd. 1804Europ. Mag. XLV. 60/2 Gallia mourns..Unpeopled cities, and unlabour'd plains.
3. Not obtained or brought about by labour; esp. attained or accomplished in an easy or natural manner; spontaneous.
1631Sir W. Cornwallis Disc. Seneca Ll 6 b, When goodnes was vnlabored excellency. 1697Dryden Virg. Past. iv. 33 Unlabour'd Harvests shall the Fields adorn. 1797Monthly Mag. III. 538 Of the translation itself we shall only observe, that it is natural and unlaboured. 1853Ruskin Stones Ven. II. viii. 369 Their perfect, pure, unlaboured naturalism. 1882Homiletic Monthly July 599 Such inspirational and unlabored success was built on a firm basis of general study.
†4. Left unapproached or uninfluenced. Obs.—1
1644Laud Wks. (1854) IV. 147 The judge at Chester (altogether unknown to me and unlaboured by me) did say [etc.].
5. Not subjected to, free from, labour.
1598R. Grenewey Tacitus, Descr. Germanie ii. 261 Horses, which are..maintained in those woods.., white, vnbacked, or vnlaboured. 1765Beattie Judgm. Paris 514 The bower of bliss..be thine, Unlabour'd ease, and leisure's careless dream. |