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beˈhoveful, -ˈhooveful, a. arch.
Forms: 4–5 behof-, 5 byhoof-, behoe-, behowe-, behuf-, 5–6 beho-, 5–7 behofe-, 5 behoue-, 6–7 behov-, behoof-, behoofe-, behooue-, 7 behoov-, 6–9 behoove-, 5– behoveful.
[f. behoof n. + -ful. (Extremely common from 1400 to 1700; but used since only by archaists.)]
Useful, of use; advantageous, expedient; needful, necessary, due.
1382Wyclif Ps. cxliv. 15 Thou ȝyuest the mete of hem in the behofful time. [1388 in couenable tyme]. 1432Paston Lett. 18. I. 32 Not behovefull nor expedient to be aboute the king. 1485Caxton Chas. Gt. 145 It is not behoeful to put hym so to deth. 1533More Answ. Poyson. Bk. Wks. 1124/2 How necessary..for mans redempcion, that is to witte so behofull therto, that without it we shoulde not haue bene saued. 1570Dee Math. Pref. 40 It is behofefull for an Architect to haue the Knowledge of Painting. 1589Marprel. Epit. 40 Behooful to the honor of god, and the good of common welth. a1674Clarendon Surv. Leviath. (1676) 159 His friendship was the more behoovfull and necessary to the King. 1736in Arb. Garner II. 528 [They] thought it more behoveful for themselves and their Religion. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. V. xiii. i. 8 For a Nation, as for a man, it is very behoveful to be honest. |