operose

Definitions

1. Of a person: busy, industrious, or painstaking.
   archaic
2. Made with or requiring a lot of labour; painstaking, laborious.
   archaic
3. Tedious, wearisome.
   archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“When this operose and hard-working student descended from his closet, and gained a sort⟳ of tacit leave⟳ from his tutor to join⟳ in the circle of us gay and high-spirited fellows, the part he played was no more advantageous to him, than his former exhibition had been among the learned.”

“Power and riches appear⟳ then to be, what they are, enormous and operoſe machines contrived to produce⟳ a few trifling conveniencies to the body […]”

“when there was so great reason⟳ to make⟳ it common, since the square letters are less operose, more expedite and facile, then the Samaritan, which is, when time serves, used as a plea for their great Antiquity.”

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