ppl. a. [f. FATIGUE v. + -ING2.] That causes fatigue; wearisome.
1708. Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), VI. 322. Vendosme having by fatiguing marches gained the Dender on the 5th.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1776), IV. 189. It would be fatiguing to the last degree, as their varieties are so numerous and their differences so small, to go through a particular description of each.
1833. J. Rennie, Alph. Angling, 64. A heavy [trouting] rod is cumbersome, fatiguing, and unwieldy.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., I. xi. 77. Hitherto he had always been in front, which was certainly the most fatiguing position.
Hence Fatiguingly adv., in a fatiguing manner.
1807. Southey, Espriella’s Lett. (1808), II. 182. The most unpleasant part of this expedition, fatiguingly steep as it was,—and nothing could be steeper which was not an actual precipice,—was, that we had a wall to cross of loose stones, very broad, and as high as an ordinary man’s stature.
1841. T. E. Hook, Fathers & Sons, ii. They dance quadrilles fatiguingly, and galope as if they were going to fly out of the windows.
1871. Le Fanu, Checkmate, II. ix. 93. [She] was … most fatiguingly well up in archæology.
1880. Miss Bird, Japan, II. 149. One makes one’s way fatiguingly along soft sea sand or coarse shingle close to the sea, or absolutely in it, under cliffs of hardened clay or yellow conglomerate, fording many small streams, several of which have cut their way deeply through a stratum of black volcanic sand.
