a. Chiefly poet. [f. SWEAT sb. + -FUL.] Full of or abounding in sweat; inducing or accompanied by sweat; toilsome, laborious; distressing, oppressive.
1615. Sylvester, Job Triumph., I. 361. Man, for Sin, must toile him servily, In Sweatfull Labour.
1623. B. Hone, in Cockeram, Eng. Dict., A vij b. If things farre fetch’d are dearest, most esteem’d, which by times sweatful houres haue been redeem’d.
1876. Blackie, Songs Relig. & Life, 53. Lift up thy head, O Man,… To sway with sweatful plan The stubborn-breasted earth.
1885. Lowe, Bismarck, xiv. II. 403. The bloated armaments under which all Europe is bending to the earth with sweatful groans.
