[f. prec. sb.; only in pa. pple., which is occas. spelt with y, after Fr. ennuyer.] trans. To affect with ennui; to bore, weary.
1805. Syd. Smith, Moral Philos., xviii. (1850), 266. They [animals] rejoice, play, are ennuied as we are.
1808. Edin. Rev., XI. 360. If the common people are ennui’d with the fine acting of Mrs. Siddons.
1865. [Mary Mapes Dodge], in Cornh. Mag., July, 58. The Shoddy lady … ennuied with the superb house and uncongenial surroundings.
1888. Pall Mall Gaz., 28 Aug., 1/1. The Roman public, jaded and ennuyed, found life not worth living without the stimulus of the sight of death.
Hence Ennuying ppl. a. (rare.)
1858. Mrs. Carlyle, Lett., II. 388. Evenings … sacred to reading on his part, and mortally ennuying to myself.
