adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a laborious manner; with labor or assiduous toil.
c. 1510. More, Picus, Wks. 16. Thei, that … in the space of this temporall death laboriously purchase themself eternall death.
1660. Boyle, New Exp. Phys. Mech., viii. 65. The Experiment was laboriously try’d.
1725. Pope, Odyss., XI. 597. I chuse laboriously to bear A weight of woes.
1803. New-York Evening Post, 22 Sept., 2/4. This gentleman [sc. Dr. Webster] … informed us, that formerly he had laboriously ransacked ancient and modern history to collect facts relating to the yellow fever.
1828. D’Israeli, Chas. I. (1830), III. i. 12. Never was there a Monarch who employed his pen so laboriously.
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., II. xvii. 180. The laboriously-earned results of the expedition.
1883. J. Hawthorne, in Harper’s Mag., Nov., 934. The heavy beams of the dark oaken ceiling crossed each other in squares, and were laboriously carved.
