Meaning of laborate | Babel Free

Definitions

To produce or develop (something).

archaic, intransitive, transitive

Examples

“So astonishing do we know the effects of electricity to be, combined with the gases, that I rather incline to suppose these massive stones to be 'laborated,' as a chemist would say, in the vast regions of the air; not by the aid of bungling blacksmiths, Charlotte, but by the 'Great First Cause, least understood,' to whose goodness and wisdom we owe all our enjoyments, especially that surpassing happiness of being able to adore Him, and to admire His beautiful creation.”

“The presence of moisture is doubtless required, because by its elements (hydrogen and oxygen) new and opposite electric agencies are elicited, which acting by induction, produce a play of affinities among the organic elements of the manure, that again reciprocate icith the vital principle of the plants, laborate the matter termed raw sap, and propel it into the spongioles of the roots.”

“In the first station he continued until his private affairs demanded his resignation; but in the last, he laborated affectionately for its promotion to the end of his days.”

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