laborate

English

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) labourate

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin labōrātus, perfect passive participle of labōrō (“to labor, toil”).

Verb

laborate (third-person singular simple present laborates, present participle laborating, simple past and past participle laborated)

1. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To produce or develop (something).
   • 1830, [Isabella Jane Towers], The Wanderings of Tom Starboard; […], London: John Harris, page 152:

     So astonishing do we know the effects of electricity to be, combined with the gases, that I rather incline to suppose these massive stones to be 'laborated,' as a chemist would say, in the vast regions of the air; not by the aid of bungling blacksmiths, Charlotte, but by the 'Great First Cause, least understood,' to whose goodness and wisdom we owe all our enjoyments, especially that surpassing happiness of being able to adore Him, and to admire His beautiful creation.

   • 1854 February, J. Towers, “The London Drainage—Its Value and Use”, in The Farmer's Magazine, volume the fifth (third series), London: Rogerson and Tuxford, page 100, column 2:

     The presence of moisture is doubtless required, because by its elements (hydrogen and oxygen) new and opposite electric agencies are elicited, which acting by induction, produce a play of affinities among the organic elements of the manure, that again reciprocate icith the vital principle of the plants, laborate the matter termed raw sap, and propel it into the spongioles of the roots.

   • 1895, Thomas G. Morton, “Biographical Sketches of Former Managers”, in The History of the Pennsylvania Hospital: 1751–1895, Philadelphia, P.A.: Times Printing House, page 412, column 1:

     In the first station he continued until his private affairs demanded his resignation; but in the last, he laborated affectionately for its promotion to the end of his days.

Related terms

• elaborate
• labour

 

Ido

Verb

laborate

1. adverbial present passive participle of laborar

Interlingua

Participle

laborate

1. past participle of laborar

Latin

Verb

labōrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of labōrō

Participle

labōrāte

1. vocative masculine singular of labōrātus

Spanish

Verb

laborate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of laborar combined with te