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Webster 1913 Edition


Lifeful

Life′ful

(līf′fụl)
,
Adj.
Full of vitality.
Spenser.

Definition 2024


lifeful

lifeful

English

Alternative forms

  • lyfull (obsolete)

Adjective

lifeful (comparative more lifeful, superlative most lifeful)

  1. Full of vitality; bestowing life. [from 13th c.]
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.11:
      Her gentle hart […] Began some smacke of comfort new to tast, / Like lyfull heat to nummed senses brought […].
    • 1818, John Keats, Endymion, I:
      A colour grew / Upon his cheek, while thus he lifeful spake.