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Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb. Those arduous pats they trod. Pope.

In an arduous manner; with difficulty or laboriousness.

The quality of being arduous; difficulty of execution.

Burning; ardent. [R.] Lo! further on, Where flames the arduous Spirit of Isidore. Cary.

informed; cognizant; conscious; as, he was aware of the enemy's designs. Aware of nothing arduous in a task They never undertook. Cowper.

o do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.

The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty. Not being able to promote them [the interests of life] on account of the difficulty of the region. James Byrne.

rformed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise. Shak. Their hands can not perform their enterprise. Job v. 12.

Difficult to accomplish; full of obstacles; laborious; fatiguing; arduous; as, a hard task; a disease hard to cure.

cident. The unlooked-for incidents of family history, and its hidden excitements, and its arduous occasions. I. Taylor.

unding in, having, possessing the qualities of, like; as in gracious, abounding in grace; arduous, full of ardor; bulbous, having bulbs, bulblike; riotous, poisonous, piteous, joyous, etc.

Dissolute; lewd; debauched. The arduous task of converting a rakish lover. Macaulay.