English

Adjective

burdenous ‎(comparative more burdenous, superlative most burdenous)

1. (obsolete) Heavy; oppressive.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.12:

     But still the tyrant sternely at him layd, / And did his yron axe so nimbly wield, / That many wounds into his flesh it made, / And with his burdenous blowes him sore did ouerlade.