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▪ I. lifeful, n. rare—1.|ˈlaɪffʊl|
[f. life n. + -ful.]
An amount sufficient to fill a lifetime.
1866Blackmore Cradock Nowell xxvii. (1881) 139 A manuscript containing a lifeful of learning.
▪ II. lifeful, a. Now rare.|ˈlaɪffʊl|
Also 3 lifful, 6 livefull, lifull, lyfull.
[f. life n. + -ful.]
Full of life; having much vitality or animation; giving or bestowing life or vitality.
a1225Leg. Kath. 834 Þe liffule leaue of hali chirche. 1570T. Norton tr. Nowel's Catech. (1853) 199 We pray to have the daily meat..to be made lifeful and healthful to us. 1595Spenser Epithal. 118. 1596 ― F.Q. vi. xi. 46 Like lyfull heat to nummed senses brought. 1606Marston Parasitaster i. ii. B 2, Tiberio's life-full eyes and well fild vaines. 1818Keats Endym. i. 768 A colour grew Upon his cheek, while thus he lifeful spake. 1862R. H. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art 108 Nothing is too lifeful for sculpture, if so be it be beautiful.
Hence ˈlifefully adv., ˈlifefulness.
a1470Tiptoft Decl. P.C. Scipio (Caxton 1481) D iv, In theyr children nature hath lyeffully emprynted..the same. 1832J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXXI. 865 In their lifefulness forgetting all thoughts..that appertain to death. 1864C. Clive John Greswold II. 179 The..garb which had been worn so lifefully in the morning. 1870H. Macmillan Bible Teach. iii. 54 Human hope and lifefulness. |
