单词 | toilful |
释义 | toilfuladj. 1. Involving toil or hard work; = toilsome adj. 2. Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adjective] > laborious or toilsome soreOE workfulOE hardOE torc1175 beswinkfulc1230 heavya1325 sweatyc1374 travailousa1382 laboriousa1393 laborousc1405 winful1443 painfulc1480 toilous1530 operousa1538 drudging1548 travailsome1549 laboursome1551 moilingc1566 toilsome?1570 toilful1573 sweating1592 insudate1609 sweatfula1618 moliminous1656 operose1659 swinking1693 schleppy1978 the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > causing weariness or exhaustion > esp. through labour travailousa1382 laboriousc1410 travailsome1549 break-back1556 toilsome?1570 toilful1573 back-aching1603 back-breaking1904 1573 tr. M. Luther Expos. Salomons Bk. i. 12 Meaning hereby to represse their calamitie and toylefull trauels. 1598 J. Dickenson Greene in Conceipt 9 How can you then with reason deny that to age; which doth ease the toylful burthen of age? 1614 J. Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue iv. 432 Hee..that..In Toil-full Fears will his own death procure. 1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard 105 Long trauell, tyrings, and toylefull labours. 1749 T. Smollett Regicide v. iv. 69 Now, the loud Tempest of the toilful Day Subsides into a Calm. 1785 Scots Mag. Feb. 89/2 My walk through the darkling vale of toilful life has not been through a wilderness of sweets. a1788 W. J. Mickle Liberty in Wks. Brit. Poets (1822) XXXIV. 46 The fruitful lawns confess his toilful care. 1847 W. Irving in Life & Lett. (1864) IV. 11 This has been a toilful year to me. 1859 F. W. Farrar Julian Home viii. 96 Climbing with toilful progress some steep and rocky hill. 1925 R. Love Rise & Fall of Jesse James xxviii. 310 The family reached Fulton, county seat of Callaway, after days of toilful journeying. a1984 S. C. Neill Hist. Christianity in India (1985) i. i. 2 The age-long and toilful effort of the human race towards the production of one world. 2010 Cybernetics & Syst. 46 636 Such an algorithm is laborious since it contains repeated consistency tests of systems of linear constraints, each being rather toilful. 2. Of a person, animal, etc.: labouring; hard-working. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adjective] > laborious or toilsome > toiling swinking?c1225 travailinga1398 drudging1548 toiling1552 toilsome1566 toilful1596 sweaty1603 droiling1607 carkingc1620 laboriferous1656 fagging1665 moiling1692 tewing1855 maulinga1864 bullocking1900 1596 E. Spenser Hymne Heauenly Loue in Fowre Hymnes 227 Betweene the toylefull Oxe and humble Asse. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. v. 517 The burthen-bearing porter, souterlie cobler, and toylefull labourer. 1793 J. Marjoribanks Pieces of Rhyme 17 To all the fervour of the vertic ray The toilful planter stands expos'd by day. 1832 W. Irving Alhambra I. 70 We behold the patient train of the toilful muleteer, slowly moving along the skirts of the mountain. 1839 W. Irving Mountjoy in Knickerbocker Mag. Nov. 403 The wild flowers were no longer..the resorts of the toilful bee. 1887 Blackie in Blackwood's Mag. Oct. 536 The toilful monks of Croyland Clave the clod. 1923 C. M. Doughty Mansoul (rev. ed.) ii. 51 Where tread slow-footed round, The toilful ox-teams. 1967 Classical World 61 2/2 Father Hayden has captured..the high seriousness and purposeful achievement of the toilful participants in their idyllic surroundings. Derivatives ˈtoilfully adv. in a toilful manner. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adverb] > laboriously travailouslya1382 laboursomely1552 laboriously?1611 toilsomely1614 moilingly1621 operosely1668 operously1668 moliminously1678 toilingly1731 toilfully1820 1820 C. Stuart Emigrant's Guide to Upper Canada v. 62 He must toilfully burn those heaps after they are sufficiently dry for that purpose. 1901 F. Norris Octopus ii. ix. 633 Toilfully he climbed them, reached the highest crest, and turning about, looked long. 2000 Chicago Sun-Times (Nexis) 1 Mar. 53 Here are some points in a philosophy toilfully gleaned from vacuuming: Push will get you where you're going... If you're not plugged in, you may not get anywhere. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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