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Word Meanings - DRUDGERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil. The drudgery of penning definitions. Macaulay. Paradise was a place of bliss . . . without drudgery and with out sorrow. Locke. Syn. -- See Toll.

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  • LABOR-SAVING
    Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, laborsaving machinery.
  • LABORIOUS
    1. Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome. Dost thou love watchings, abstinence, or toil, Laborious virtues all Learn these from Cato. Addison. 2. Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic.
  • BUSINESS
    The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
  • LABORED
    Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.
  • LABOR
    The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging. 7. Etym: (more info) 1. Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard,
  • LABOROUS
    Laborious. Wyatt. -- La"bor*ous*ly, adv. Sir T. Elyot.
  • FUNCTION; FUNCTIONATE
    To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.
  • LABORATORY
    The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the
  • REFRESHMENT
    1. The act of refreshing, or the state of being refreshed; restoration of strength, spirit, vigor, or liveliness; relief after suffering; new life or animation after depression. 2. That which refreshes; means of restoration or reanimation;
  • UNDERTAKING
    1. The act of one who undertakes, or engages in, any project or business. Hakluyt. 2. That which is undertaken; any business, work, or project which a person engages in, or attempts to perform; an enterprise. 3. Specifically, the business of an
  • ANIMATER
    One who animates. De Quincey.
  • FUNCTION
    The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the
  • TRAVAILOUS
    Causing travail; laborious. Wyclif. -- Trav"ail*ous*ly, adv. Wyclif.
  • UNDERTAKE
    1. To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt. To second, or oppose, or undertake The perilous attempt. Milton. 2. Specifically, to take upon one's self solemnly
  • UNDERTAKER
    1. One who undertakes; one who engages in any project or business. Beau. & Fl. 2. One who stipulates or covenants to perform any work for another; a contractor. To sign deputations for undertakes to furnish their proportions of saltpeter. Evelyn.
  • LABORSOME
    Likely or inclined to roll or pitch, as a ship in a heavy sea; having a tendency to labor. (more info) 1. Made with, or requiring, great labor, pains, or diligence. Shak.
  • OPERATION
    Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols. (more info) 1. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
  • FATIGUE
    1. Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength. 2. The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war. Dryden. 3. The weakening of a metal when subjected to repeated vibrations or strains. Fatigue
  • BUSINESSLIKE
    In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
  • LABORER
    One who labors in a toilsome occupation; a person who does work that requires strength rather than skill, as distinguished from that of an artisan.
  • OVERFATIGUE
    Excessive fatigue.
  • OVERLABOR
    1. To cause to labor excessively; to overwork. Dryden. 2. To labor upon excessively; to refine unduly.
  • COLABORER
    One who labors with another; an associate in labor.
  • ELABORATION
    The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle,
  • UNLABORED
    1. Not produced by labor or toil. "Unlabored harvests." Dryden. 2. Not cultivated; untitled; as, an unlabored field. 3. Not laboriously produced, or not evincing labor; as, an unlabored style or work. Tickell.
  • IMPROPERATION
    The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne
  • UNDERLABORER
    An assistant or subordinate laborer. Locke.
  • DEFUNCTION
    Death. After defunction of King Pharamond. Shak.
  • ELABORATOR
    One who, or that which, elaborates.
  • ELABORATORY
    Tending to elaborate.
  • INANIMATE
    To animate. Donne.

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