v. Obs. colloq. Also 8 joab, job. [f. JOB sb.4, in allusion to the lengthy reproofs addressed to Job by his friends.] trans. To rebuke, reprove, or reprimand, in a long and tedious harangue; to ‘lecture.’
1670. Ray, Proverbs, 207. In the University of Cambridge, the young scholars are wont to call chiding Jobing.
1683. Sir J. Bramston, Autobiog., 205. The Kinge had talked earnestly to the Duke and jobed him (that was the word) soe that the teares stood in his eyes.
1709. Tatler, No. 71, ¶ 8. What bright Man says, I was Joab’d by the Dean.
1721–2. Amherst, Terræ Filius, No. 33 (1726), 178. A former president of St. John’s college … would frequently Job his students for going constantly three or four times a day to chapel.
1794. Gentl. Mag., Dec., 1085. In consequence of an intimation from the tutor relative to his irregularities, his own father came from the country to jobe him.
