单词 | overtoiled |
释义 | overtoiledadj. Now rare. Exhausted by excessive toil; worn out, overworked. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > esp. through labour forswunka1250 forwroughtc1400 forlaboured1483 broken1490 forespent1563 fortoiled1567 toiled1574 overtoiled?1577 over-laboured1579 back-broken1603 moiled1618 swinked1637 overwrought1648 overtaxed1650 toil-worn1752 used up1823 overworked1830 beat1832 dead-beaten1854 ?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 30 Wearied natures, ouertoyled bodies. 1599 H. Petowe Philochasander & Elanira xxxiii. l. 603 I seeing this faire Ladie flie me fro, As fearefull Dooes from hunters fierce pursuite. Who ouer-toyled can no further goe, But in some brake lye close as dead and mute. 1607 Trag. Claudius Tiberius Nero sig. Fv Suffer me to grieue, If at nought else, yet at necessitie, Too strickt for ouertoylde Germanicus, Whose wearie limmes, require a longer rest. a1657 G. Daniel Idyllia in Poems (1878) IV. 226 Over-toil'd Affections, wounded Send To Reason, at his need, my nearest freind. 1739 H. Brooke Gustavus Vasa iii. ii. 34 A bloody Field it was, Where Conquest gasp'd, and wanted Breath to tell, Its o'er-toil'd Triumph. 1847–8 H. Miller First Impr. Eng. xviii. 325 An overtoiled young man in delicate health. 1855 A. Trollope Warden xii. 189 Every appliance that could make study pleasant and give ease to the over-toiled brain was there. 1863 T. Martin Monk's Dream in Poems 333 The morsel won by the o'ertoilèd brow Of poverty thou took'st to feed the state Of revellers. 1913 in W. A. Raleigh Some Authors (1923) 159 Dryden rose to his greatest in failure, and impressed himself most on his contemporaries when he was a sick and overtoiled man. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?1577 |
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