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onerous, a.|ˈɒnərəs|
Also 5 honerous.
[a. OF. onereus, honereus (Oresme 14th c.), F. onéreux, ad. L. onerōs-us, f. onus, oner- burden: see -ous.]
1. Of the nature of a burden; burdensome; oppressive, troublesome.
c1400Rom. Rose 5633 For he nyl be importune Unto no wight, ne honerous. c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. xx. 88 If þis lyve be onerouse and hevy, yette bi thi grace hit is fulle meritory. 1533–4Act 25 Hen. VIII, c. 19 Dyuers constitucions.. ouermuch onerous to his highnes and his subiectes. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iv. vii. (1676) 105/1 Overcome and tormented with worldly cares, and onerous business. 1775Johnson Tax. no Tyr. 32 Called to any onerous service. 1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville I. 233 The duties of a wife..among Indians, are little less onerous than those of the packhorse.
b. Of the nature of a legal burden, or obligation.
1539Elyot Let. to Cromwell in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. II. 117 Discharged without any recompence, rewarded only with the order of Knighthode, honorable and onerouse. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 16 A banish'd Person..retains all Things onerous to himself, as a Punishment for his Crime. 1875Poste Gaius i. Introd., To enforce that performance..from the person to whom it is onerous, that is, to whom it is commanded. 1883Law Times 10 Nov. 22/2 The 23rd section..provides for disclaimer of onerous property.
2. Sc. Law. Done or given for value received, being for a consideration: opposed to gratuitous; as in onerous consideration, onerous grant, onerous property, onerous title, etc. (So, in Fr. law, titre onéreux, etc.)
1751Macfarlane Genealogical Collections (1900) 305. 1754 Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 139 If the grant be made for a valuable consideration, it is said to be onerous; if for love and favour, gratuitous. 1861W. Bell Dict. Sc. Law 220/2 Where value in money, or goods, or services, has been given in return for the deed, the consideration is said to be onerous. Ibid. 221/1 A deed granted for a gratuitous consideration, where not struck at as a fraud against onerous creditors, is as effectual as a deed granted for a valuable consideration.
Hence ˈonerously adv., in an onerous or burdensome manner; ˈonerousness, burdensomeness.
1856Webster, Onerously. 1866A. L. Perry Elem. Pol. Econ. (1873) 116 The comparative onerousness of the respective efforts. 1877Owen Mrq. Wellesley's Desp. Introd. 39 The position..which Wellesley was determined to compel them to recognise in all its amplitude and onerousness. |