† laboratev.

1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike xxxix. 298 The transpiring or breathing thorow of Spirits labourated [L. laboratis] in the heart.

1845 Brit. Friend of India Mag. Oct. 109 A false and waspish article..which..contains abundant internal evidence of having been laborated by a venal official under the direction of Lord Aberdeen.

1858 Evangelical Repository (Philadelphia) Aug. 151 Abstract truths laborated into complex propositions, will not, and cannot satisfy the wants of the church and age.

1895 T. G. Morton & F. Woodbury Hist. Pennsylvania Hosp. 412/1 He laborated affectionately for its promotion and advancement to the end of his days.

1830 I. J. Towers Wanderings of Tom Starboard 152 I rather incline to suppose that these massive stones [sc. aërolites] to be ‘laborated’, as a chemist would say, in the vast regions of the air.

1854 Farmer's Mag. Feb. 100/2 A play of affinities among the organic elements of the manure..reciprocate with the vital principle of the plants, laborate the matter termed raw sap, and propel it into the spongioles of the roots.

1898 Kansas City Med. Index 19 68/1 It [sc. atrophy of the liver] is caused by some poisonous chemical compound, laborated possibly by a disordered digestion.

1835 Farmer's Mag. Dec. 474/1 If bulbs or tubers be formed, the descending laborated fluids are appropriated to the formation of those processes.

1847 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 187/1 The bulk of all our fresh fermenting manures should be thickly deposited in trenches,..there to ferment slowly, and deliver their gases to the laborated soil above.

1855 Jrnl. Agric. Mar. 699 The precocious heat.., by propelling vegetation, and enriching the proper laborated juices, prepared them to become the delicious food of the insect.