Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to heal or cure; healing.
- Full of health or safety.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Tending or serving to heal; healing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Tending or serving to
heal ; health-promoting;healing . - adjective Full of
health orsafety ;healthy ;whole ;sound ;safe . - adjective Affording health or
salvation .
Etymologies
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From Middle English heeleful, heleful, equivalent to heal (“health, well-being”) + -ful. Compare healless.
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Examples
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For as oft as any healful thought cometh in our mind, as of chastity, of soberness, of despising of the world, of wilful poverty, of patience, of meekness, and of charity, without doubt it is the spirit of God that speaketh, either by Himself or else by some of
The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902
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