† desidiousadj.
Obsolete.
Idle, indolent, slothful.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [adjective]
sweerc725
foridledc1230
idlea1300
faintc1325
recrayed1340
slewful1340
nicea1398
sleuthya1400
delicate?c1400
sleuthfulc1400
slothfulc1400
sloth1412
lurdanc1480
luskinga1500
luskish15..
droning1509
bumbard?a1513
slottery1513
desidiousa1540
lazy1549
slovening1549
truanta1550
sleuth1567
litherly1573
truantly1579
dronish1580
lubberly1580
truant-like1583
shiftless1584
sluggard1594
fat1598
lusky1604
sweatless1606
clumse1611
easeful1611
loselly1611
do-littlea1613
sluggardisha1627
pigritious1638
drony1653
murcid1656
thokisha1682
shammockinga1704
indolent1710
huddroun1721
nothing-doing1724
desidiose1727
lusk1775
slack-twisted1794
sweert1817
bone-lazya1825
lurgy1828
straight-backed1830
do-nothing1832
slobbish1833
bone idle1836
slouch1837
lotophagous1841
shammocky1841
bein1847
thoky1847
lotus-eating1852
fainéant1855
sluggardly1865
lazy-boned1875
do-naught1879
easy-going1879
lazyish1892
slobbed1962
a1540 [implied in: J. Leland Let. to Cromwell in A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses (1691) I. 68 The Germanes perceiving our desidiousness and negligence do send daily young Scholars hither, that spoileth them [ancient authors] and cutteth them out of libraries, returning home and putting them abroad as monuments of their own country [etc.]. (at desidiousness n.)].
1609 R. Crakanthorpe Serm. Solemnizing King James Ep. Ded. sig. A2v Some..blamed both him and other Bishops, as being desidious.
1637 R. Humfrey tr. St. Ambrose Christian Offices ii. 5 To be desidious and defectiue in pious workes.
1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 69 Yee fight the battells of the Lord, bee neither desidious nor perfidious.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Desidious, sloathful, lazy, sluggish.
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