单词 | outlabour |
释义 | outlabouroutlaborv. transitive. To surpass in labour or endurance. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [verb (transitive)] > perform with labour, toil at > surpass in out-toil1603 over-labour1607 outlabour1609 1609 G. Chapman Euthymiae Raptus sig. A3 Now that our Soueraign, the great King of Peace, Hath (in her grace) outlabour'd Hercules. 1651 W. Davenant Gondibert ii. ii. xxv I have..Out-suffer'd patience, bred in Captives Breasts;..Outwatch'd the jealous, and outlabour'd Beasts. a1728 C. Mather Elegy on Death of Mrs. Mary Brown in Verse in Eng. (1989) ii. 75 To fill her Soul with high Attainments, Shee Gladly Out-Labour'd the Industrious Bee. 1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity IV. ix. x. 265 The Poor Men of the Church might out-labour and out-suffer the Poor Men of Lyons. 1883 Macfadyen in Congregational Year Bk. 58 Bishop Burnet gave his clergy the..advice that if they wished Dissent to cease, they must out-live, out-labour, out-preach Dissenters. 1991 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 3 Sept. e1 (headline) Connors outlabors Krickstein in five sets. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasout-labour ΚΠ 1903 N.E.D. at Out- Out-labour. < v.1609 as lemmas |
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