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Tedium. World English Historical Dictionary

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Tedium. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1916, rev. 2022. Tedium Also 7–9 tædium. [a. L. tædium weariness, disgust, f. tæd-ēre to weary.] The state or quality of being tedious; wearisomeness, tediousness, ennui.

1 1662.  Petty, Taxes, ii. § 37. Whereby the charge and tedium of travelling … may be greatly lessened.

2 1663.  J. Spencer, Prodigies (1665), 16. Stories of Prodigies may … deceive the tædium of a winter night.

3 1779.  J. Moore, View Soc. Fr. (1789), I. xviii. 141. A more infallible specific against tedium and fatigue.

4 1814.  Scott, Wav., xxv. When he remembered the tædium of his quarters.

5 1874.  Green, Short Hist., v. § 1. 216. In some of the stories … there is the tedium of the old romance.

6   Comb.  1827.  Carlyle, Germ. Lit., Misc. Ess. 1872, I. 28. One or two sleek clerical tutors, with here and there a tedium-stricken ’squire.

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