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noiseful, a.|ˈnɔɪzfʊl| [f. noise n. + -ful.] 1. Full of noise; noisy.
1382Wyclif Prov. xx. 1 A leccherous thing [is] win, and noiseful drunkenesse. c1425Found. St. Bartholomew's (E.E.T.S.) 3 Amonge the noysefull prese of that tumultuous courte. 1608Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. iv. Decay 264 Either side in their seem-Rights' defence Was hot and earnest at the noise-full Bar. 1644Sir E. Dering Prop. Sacr. C iij, These proud fastuous wayes of humility, this noisefull piety. 1674Dryden Epil. Univ. Oxford 5 Content of mind; Which noiseful towns and courts can never know. 1725Pope Odyss. xv. 557 From noiseful revel far remote she flies. 1858Beecher Life Thoughts (1859) 51 The forest is quiet or only so much noiseful as the insects make it. †2. Full of slander or evil report. Obs.
1459Paston Lett. I. 499 Bothen have answerid Wyndham, not aldermoste to hise plesir, becaus of his noiseful langage. 1463Ibid. II. 134 With ougth evydent proffe the mater schall be but noysefull to you. Hence ˈnoisefully adv. rare—1.
c1611Chapman Iliad ii. Comm., λιγεως..signifieth shrillie, or noisefullie, squeaking. |