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laboursome, laborsome, a.|ˈleɪbəsəm|
[f. labour n. + -some.]
†1. Given to labour; hard-working; = laborious 1. Obs.
1551Edw. VI Pol. Ess. Lit. Rem. (1857) II. 481 So ought ther no part of the commenwealth to be but laborsom in his vocation. 1575–85Abp. Sandys Serm. iii. 46 The vineyard that shall fructifie must fall into the hands of a skilful and laboursome husbandman. 1607Markham Caval. i. (1617) 79 The braine of a man being a busie and laborsome work⁓maister. 1620― Farew. Husb. ii. xvii. (1668) 75 Although it [the ant] be but a little creature, yet it is so laboursome, that [etc.].
2. Requiring, entailing, or accompanied by labour; = laborious 2. Now rare or dial.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. II. 28/1 The painefull diligence, and the laboursome industrie of a famous lettered man M. Peter White. 1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 33 Those studies, which seeme laborsome in youthfull yeares, are made right pleasant rest vnto old age. 1602Shakes. Ham. i. ii. 59 (Qo. 1604), Hath..wroung from me my slow leaue, By laboursome petition. 1611Coryat Crudities 350 A way..very laboursome and painfull to trauell. 1656Earl of Monmouth Advt. fr. Parnass. 150 The laborsom journey which leads towards the obtaining of Supreme Honors and Dignities. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss. s.v., We have a lang laboursome hill to climm. 1898Trask Norton-sub-Hamdon 33 Life was laboursome, but not without hope.
†b. Of land: Difficult of cultivation. Obs.
1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iv. ii. 208 The like hath God done for this land so rough and laboursome, giving it great riches in mines.
3. Of a ship: ‘Subject to labour or to pitch and roll violently in a heavy sea’ (1850 Rudim. Nav. 128).
1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 127 What makes a Ship Roll and laboursome in the Sea? 1764Chron. in Ann. Reg. 80/1 Most..died in the passage, it beng so very long, and the ship so very laboursome. 1794Rigging & Seamanship II. 336 The..topsail should be the last..sail taken in, in a laboursome ship.
Hence ˈlaboursomely adv., laboriously; ˈlaboursomeness, laboriousness.
1552Edw. VI Jrnl. Lit. Rem. (1857) II. 420 They had..passed many a strait very painfully and laborsomly. 1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 68 b, ‘And they have no rest, &c.’, signifie not any laboursomnes or paynefulnes, but a continual holdyng on and tunable agrement in praysing God. 1592R. D. Hypnerot. 6 b, Which immence..forme..mounting up laboursomly foote by foote, conteyned 1410 degrees or steppes. 1880R. Broughton Second Th. I. i. ix. 152 It seems as if to each breath a heavy stone were tied, so laboursomely does he drag it up. |