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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

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