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mirthful, a.|ˈmɜːθfʊl|
[f. mirth n. + -ful.]
1. a. Of persons, their dispositions, moods, etc.: Full of mirth; joyous, gladsome, hilarious.
a1300Cursor M. 10611 Þar bileft þat mirthful mai, Drightin hir ledd in al hir wai. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 357 Befoir that mirthfull man menstrallis playis. 1500–20Dunbar Poems x. 36 Be myrthfull now, at all ȝour mycht, For passit is ȝour dully nycht. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 14 Brasse buttons, pieces of Pewter, spur-rowels, or what else the mirthfull Saylers exchange. 1726Pope Odyss. xx. 415 A mirthful frenzy seized the fated croud. a1745Broome tr. Anacreon's Odes liv. 8 Hence, hoary Age!—I now am young, And dance the mirthful Youths among. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 45 Each mirthful lout The ale-house seeks. 1940W. Faulkner Hamlet iv. i. 279 His constant expression of incorrigible and mirthful disbelief had left him now.
b. Of places, seasons, etc.: Characterized by mirth or rejoicing. Of sounds or utterances: Expressive of mirth, joyous, merry.
c1450Holland Howlat 998 In mirthfull moneth of May. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xlviii. 163 Thane all the birdis song with voce on hicht, Quhois mirthfull soun wes mervelus to heir. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 198 This Ceremony..to Libidinists may seeme mirthfull and charitable. 1807Crabbe Par. Reg. iii. 847 But most his Reverence loved a mirthful jest. 1834Lytton Pompeii iii. ii, There is nothing very mirthful in your strain. 1846Keble Lyra Innoc. (1873) 131 Mirthful bower or hall.
2. Of things: Affording mirth, amusing.
1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, v. vii. 43 And now what rests, but that we spend the time With stately Triumphes, mirthfull Comicke shewes. 1877Athenæum 13 Oct. 475/2 The piece..is one of the most mirthful and original that has, during late years, been seen on the stage. |