Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who labors; a workman; specifically, a working chemist.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A chemist.

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  • noun obsolete A chemist.

Etymologies

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Latin labōrāns, present participle of labōrō. See laboratory.

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Examples

  • MANFRED: considerate lilia agri quomodo crescunt non laborant nec nent.

    A Break for Laziness Fresca 2010

  • Circa praecordia de assidua in flatione queruntur, et cum sudore totius corporis importuno, frigidos articulos saepe patiuntur, indigestione laborant, ructus suos insuaves perhorrescunt, viscerum dolores habent.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Mihi diligentius hanc rem consideranti, patet quosdam esse, qui non laborant maerore et timore.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Non laborant terram, prædia, seu vineas, sed morantur inter eos nostræ quantitatis homines, qui eos incolunt, sicut serui, quos et Pygmæi sæpè derident, quia sunt ipsis maiores: et quod ipse non cesso mirari dum dicti homines in illa terra generant vel pariunt, non crescit proles supra Pygmæi staturam: Insula non est protensa, sed fortè

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Non laborant terram, pr鎑ia, seu vineas, sed morantur inter eos nostr� quantitatis homines, qui eos incolunt, sicut serui, quos et Pygm鎖 s鎝� derident, quia sunt ipsis maiores: et quod ipse non cesso mirari dum dicti homines in illa terra generant vel pariunt, non crescit proles supra Pygm鎖 staturam: Insula non est protensa, sed fort�

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Lucretius asks the same question: — "Quod si Juppiter atque alii fulgentia divi terrifico quatiunt sonitu cælestia templa et jaciunt ignem quo qoiquest cumque voluptas, cur quibus incautum scelus aversabile cumquest non faciunt icti flammas ut fulguris halent pectore perfixo, documen mortalibus acre, et potius nulla sibi turpi conscius in re volvitur in flammis innoxius inque peditur turbine cælesti subito correptus et igni? cur etiam loca sola petunt frustraque laborant?"

    Lunheng 1962

  • As an old laborant [Worker in a laboratory] at piano music allow me merely to lay before you a slight alteration in the two bars before the return of the motive (No. I).

    Letters Liszt, Franz 1893

  • Villici et coloni universi laborant, parcunt, corradunt, ut istis satisfaciant ....

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • Non laborant terram, prædia, seu vineas, sed morantur inter eos nostræ quantitatis homines, qui eos incolunt, sicut serui, quos et Pygmæi sæpè derident, quia sunt ipsis maiores: et quod ipse non cesso mirari dum dicti homines in illa terra generant vel pariunt, non crescit proles supra Pygmæi staturam: Insula non est protensa, sed fortè 12. ciuitatum.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • &c. Et multi mortales hac insania, et praepostero immortalitatis studio laborant, et misere pereunt: rex ipse clam venenum hausisset, nisi a servo fuisset detentus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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