Definition of Tedum

Definition of Tedum

Te"di*um (?), n. [L. taedium, fr. taedet it disgusts, it wearies one.] Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness. [Written also tædium.] Cowper.

To relieve the tedium, he kept plying them with all manner of bams.

Prof. Wilson.

The tedium of his office reminded him more strongly of the willing scholar, and his thoughts were rambling.

Dickens.

Te"di*um (?), n. [L. taedium, fr. taedet it disgusts, it wearies one.] Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness. [Written also tædium.] Cowper.

To relieve the tedium, he kept plying them with all manner of bams.

Prof. Wilson.

The tedium of his office reminded him more strongly of the willing scholar, and his thoughts were rambling.

Dickens.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many
fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an
authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious
source -- the first words of the ancient Latin hymn Te Deum
Laudamus. In this apparently natural derivation there is something
that saddens.

- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

boredom or tediousness; ennui

- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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