[App. f. BORE sb.2]
trans. To weary by tedious conversation or simply by the failure to be interesting.
1768. Earl Carlisle, Lett., 16 April, in Jesse, G. Selwyn, I. 291. I pity my Newmarket friends, who are to be bored by these Frenchmen. Ibid., 293. I have seen as yet nothing of Florence, therefore shall not bore you.
1774. Private Lett. 1st Ld. Malmesbury, I. 278. I have bored you sadly with this catastrophe.
1821. Byron, in Moore’s Life, xli. 476. Hobhouse and others bored me with their learned localities.
1853. De Quincey, Sp. Mil. Nun, Wks. III. 15. A man … has no unlimited privilege of boring one.
1883. Fortn. Rev., Feb., 186. Whereas he had expected to be dreadfully bored, he had on the contrary been greatly instructed.
