Tedious
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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
1: Ἐγκόπτω (Strong'S #1465 — Verb — enkopto — eng-kop'-to )
"to hinder," is rendered "to be tedious" in Acts 24:4 , of detaining a person unnecessarily. See Hinder , No. 1.
King James Dictionary [2]
TE'DIOUS, a. L. toedium.
1. Wearisome tiresome from continuance, prolixity, or slowness which causes prolixity. We say, a man is tedious in relating a story a minister is tedious in his sermon. We say also, a discourse is tedious, when it wearies by its length or dullness. 2. Slow as a tedious course.
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(a.) Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome.
