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easeful, a.|ˈiːzfʊl|
Also 4 eisfull, 5 esful.
[f. ease n. + -ful.]
1. That gives ease, comfort, or relief; comfortable, soothing.
1375Barbour Bruce v. 70 Myne auenture heir tak will I, Quhethir it be eisfull or angry. c1425Wyntoun Cron. vi. xx. 46 Wyth oþire thyng Ðat esful ware to þare lykyng. 1580Sidney Arcadia iii. 377 Wishing easeful rest to Philoclea. 1577Holinshed Chron. I. 58/2 How pleasant and easefull the good lucke of those princes. 1607C. Lever in Farr S.P. 168 To make his burthen Easeful as hee may. 1625tr. Gonsalvio's Sp. Inquis. 123 A bed of flags which serued them both to couch on, more painefull a great deale then easefull. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. Wks. 1738 I. 67 It is neither easeful, profitable, nor praiseworthy in this Life to do evil. 1820Keats Ode Nightingale 52 For many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death. 1886T. Hardy in Macm. Mag. 70 That easeful sense of accomplishment which follows work done that has been a hard struggle in the doing.
2. Unoccupied, at rest; addicted to ease or indolence, slothful, careless.
1611Cotgr., Aiser, to be lazie, easefull. a1618Raleigh Seat of Govt. (1651) 66 Giving the best of their grain to the easefull and idle. 1628Wither Brit. Rememb. iii. 18 The faire smooth way, of easefull Pleasure tends. 1686J. Crook Ep. Yng. People prof. Truth 4 Rest no longer in an easeful mind..but sink down in deep Humility. 1855Singleton Virgil I. 88 Winter is easeful for the husbandman.
Hence ˈeasefully adv., in an easeful manner; comfortably; idly. ˈeasefulness, the condition of being easeful.
1611Cotgr., Estre en la paille iusques au ventre, to be fully accommodated, easefully lodged. a1639W. Whately Prototypes i. xix. (1640) 235 The diligent man takes as much content in his moderate labour, as the sluggard in somnolency and easefulnesse. 1883Brit. Q. Rev. July 15 The exceeding sense of comfort and easefulness. 1886Graphic 27 Feb. 242/1 Standing with her hands on her hips, easefully looking at the preparations on her behalf. |
