a. [f. as prec. + -SOME.] Of a fatiguing nature; wearisome.

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a. 1734.  North, Exam., III. vii. § 16 (1740), 515. The Attorney General’s Place is very nice and fatiguesome, and the other quiet.

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1746.  Turnbull, Justin, XXVII. iii. 218. Antiochus was overcome the second time; and after a fatiguesome flight of several days, came at last to his father-in-law Artamenes king of Cappadocia.

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1827.  J. Wilson, Noctes Ambrosianæ, in Blackw. Mag., XXI. 475. Think na ye that his [Wordsworth’s] Excursion would hae been far less fatiguesome?

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