laborate

Verb

laborate (third-person singular simple present laborates, present participle laborating, simple past and past participle laborated)

1. (archaic, intransitive, transitive) To produce or develop (something).
   • So astonishing do we know the effects of electricity to be, combined with the gases, that I rather incline to suppose these massive stones to be 'laborated,' as a chemist would say, in the vast regions of the air; not by the aid of bungling blacksmiths, Charlotte, but by the 'Great First Cause...1830, [Isabella Jane Towers], The Wanderings of Tom Starboard; […], London: John Harris, page 152
   • The presence of moisture is doubtless required, because by its elements (hydrogen and oxygen) new and opposite electric agencies are elicited, which acting by induction, produce a play of affinities among the organic elements of the manure, that again reciprocate icith the vital principle of the...1854 February, J. Towers, “The London Drainage—Its Value and Use”, in The Farmer's Magazine, volume the fifth (third series), London: Rogerson and Tuxford, page 100, column 2