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baleful, a.|ˈbeɪlfʊl|
Forms: 1 bealu-, bealofull, 2–3 balufull, 3 baluhful, 3–5 balful(l, 4 ballefull, 3– baleful(l.
[OE. bealu-full, f. bealu bale n.1 + full. Until recent times almost exclusively poetic; still chiefly literary.]
1. Full of malign, deadly, or noxious influence; pernicious, destructive, noxious, injurious, mischievous, malignant:
a. physically or generally.
a1000Crist (Grein) 259 Se bealofulla [= the devil] hyneþ heardlice. c1220St. Marher. 10 To beoren me into his balefule hole. 1230Ancr. R. 114 So baluhful & so bitter! c1400Destr. Troy i. 167 These balfull bestes were..ffull flaumond of fyre. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. ii. iii. 8 Balefull weedes, and precious Iuiced flowers. 1676Black Prince in Harl. Misc. (1793) 51 Great flocks of ravens, and other baleful birds of prey. 1712Swift Wond. Proph. Wks. 1755 III. i. 173 This baleful dog-star. 1800–24Campbell To Sir F. Burdett v, His hate is baleful, but his love is worse. 1862Rawlinson Anc. Mon. I. i. 32 The baleful simoon sweeps across the entire tract.
b. morally.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 215 Tend mine heorte and uorbern al þat is baluful þer inne. c1300Lay-Folks Mass-Bk. B. 404 Þat may lese alle baleful bandes. 1589Greene Menaph. (Arb.) 22 The baleful laborinth of despaire. 1597Lok in Farr S.P. (1845) I. 138 Through baleful lust of gold. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) III. lxxxi. 109 O baleful Envy! thou self-tormenting fiend. 1863W. Phillips Speeches xvi. 362 The potent and baleful prejudice of color.
2. subjectively:
a. Full of pain or suffering, painful. Obs.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 181 On þisse liue we beð on balfulle swinche for adames gulte. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Jan., Such stormie stoures do breede my balefull smart.
b. Unhappy, wretched, miserable; distressed, sorrowful, mournful. arch.
c1325E.E. Allit. P. C. 979 Þe balleful burde [Lot's wife], þat neuer bode keped. c1420Anturs of Arth. xlii, The balefulle birde blenked on his blode. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 124 The ȝoutting, ȝouling, and the bailfull beir Tha maid. 1596Drayton Legends iii. 14 That Baleful sounds immovably do'st breathe. 1812J. Wilson Isle of Palms i. 533 Baleful spirits barr'd from realms of bliss. |