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Prosecuted with careful attention and effort; careful; painstaking; not careless or negligent. The judges shall make diligent inquisition. Deut. xix. 18.

ed with inflammation and ulceration of the colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood.

Freedom from anything that pains or troubles; as: (a) Relief from labor or effort; rest; quiet; relaxation; as, ease of body. Usefulness comes by labor, wit by ease. Herbert. Give yourself ease from the fatigue of watching. Swift.

Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research. Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. Waller.

n, for an everlasting possession. Gen xvii. 8. And heard thy everlasting yawn confess The pains and penalties of idleness. Pope.

t time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts. I took a great pains to make out the exact truth. Jowett (Thucyd. )

To inspect; to investigate; to decipher. [R.] To take some pains in excusing some old monuments. F. Junius (1654).

the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Cen. xli. 55. The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel. Dryden.

One who exlpains geological phenomena by the action of streams. [R.]

Resembling lightning; -- used to describe intense lancinating painsaccompanying locomotor ataxy.

To suffer griping pains. Jocke.

A bodily injury causing pain; a wound, bruise, or the like. The pains of sickness and hurts . . . all men feel. Locke.

n untaught or uninformed; one unlettered or unskilled; an ignoramous. Did I for this take pains to teach Our zealous ignorants to preach Denham.

due to intestinal obstruction. It is characterized by complete constipation, with griping pains in the abdomen, which is greatly distended, and in the later stages by vomiting of fecal matter. Called also ileac, or iliac, passion.

Freedom from that which pains, or harasses, as toil, care, grief, etc. [Obs.] I have ease, if it may not rather be called indolence. Bp. Hough.

ard! He might have an intuition at it, as the encouragement, though not the cause, of his pains. Fuller.

To exert one's powers of mind in the prosecution of any design; to strive; to take pains.

Made with, or requiring, great labor, pains, or diligence. [Obs.] Shak.

Piercing; seeming to pierce or stab; as, lancinating pains (i.e., severe, darting pains).

Composed by candlelight, or by night; of or pertaining to night studies; laborious or painstaking. Pope.