Obs. [f. L. fatīgāt- ppl. stem of fatīgāre to FATIGUE.] = FATIGUE v. 1.
1535. Bonner, Let., in Burnet, Hist. Ref., II. 177. The Party adverse, which … goeth about to fatigate and make weary the Consistory of the disputations.
1549. Compl. Scot., vi. 37. The lang conteneuation of studie … did fatigat my rason.
1577. Hellowes, trans. Gueuara’s Chron., 309. The Romans were fatigated & tyred with warres, so they were contented (for the time) to ceasse the recouering of them for their vassals, to obtein them for quiet enimies.
1622. Sir R. Hawkins, Observations (1878), 127. With which extreame heate the bodie fatigated, greedily desireth refreshing.
a. 1652. J. Smith, Sel. Disc., vi. (1673), 224. This kind therefore of Divine inspiration was alwaies more pacate and serene then the other of Prophesie, neither did it so much fatigate and act upon the Imagination.
1749. Fielding, Tom Jones, IV. 197. She will soon be fatigated with the journey.
Hence Fatigated ppl. a.
1552. Huloet, Fatigated, defatigatus.
1625–6. Purchas, Pilgrimes, II. 1837. The remembrance of these sweet seasoned Songs of Arcadian Shepherds, which pregnant Poets have so well penned, did recreate my fatigated corps, with many sugred suppositions.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., VI. 297. Intercept and indanger fatigated Travellers.
