Also 7–9 tædium. [a. L. tædium weariness, disgust, f. tæd-ēre to weary.] The state or quality of being tedious; wearisomeness, tediousness, ennui.
1662. Petty, Taxes, ii. § 37. Whereby the charge and tedium of travelling … may be greatly lessened.
1663. J. Spencer, Prodigies (1665), 16. Stories of Prodigies may … deceive the tædium of a winter night.
1779. J. Moore, View Soc. Fr. (1789), I. xviii. 141. A more infallible specific against tedium and fatigue.
1814. Scott, Wav., xxv. When he remembered the tædium of his quarters.
1874. Green, Short Hist., v. § 1. 216. In some of the stories … there is the tedium of the old romance.
Comb. 1827. Carlyle, Germ. Lit., Misc. Ess. 1872, I. 28. One or two sleek clerical tutors, with here and there a tedium-stricken ’squire.
