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Laborus, Lauborous, adj. Also : laboros, laubo(u)r(o)us, lawborrws. [ME. (Chaucer) and e.m.E. laborous, OF. laboros, -us, L. *labōrōsus.] = Laborious adj.(1) c1475 Wall. ix. 1946.
Bot he her off as than tuk litill heid, His lauborous mynd was all on othir deid Ib. xi. 958.
His laubourous mynd a1499 Contempl. Sinn. 840.
We … settis our sapiens … sic perellis to repres And tham eschewe with lauborus deligens 1544 Corr. M. Lorraine 97.
[I] in the menetyme salbe deligent and lawborrws in thai materis 15.. Clar. ii. 720.
Se that they [workmen] be verie laborus Whill thay have maid ane harnes fair and sure(2) a1499 Contempl. Sinn. 277.
Gud lyf begynnyng is lauborus, Syne followis frute of honour 1513 Doug. iii. vi. 201.
Scho wil thé schaw, … on quhat wys … thou may al lauborus [Sm. laubourus] payn sustene(3) 1535 Stewart 35687.
The laborus men into the Ylis that war With ydill men oppressit war Ib. 49787.
Mony laborus men, Quhilk brocht with thame bayth guis, gryce, and hen a1538 Abell 44 b.
Pure laboros men durst nocht schaw to the Kingis officiaris the namis of the gentill me[n] at oppressit thame 1551 Hamilton Cat. 98.
Quha that payis nocht servandis and lauborous men their feis