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† ˈsightful, a. Obs.
[f. sight n.1]
1. Visible.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints l. (Catherine) 369 [He] is a god,..wnsichtfull and sichtfull bedene. 1387–8T. Usk Test. Love Prol. (Skeat) l. 58 The unsene privitees of god, made to us sightful..in our contemplacion and understonding. Ibid. iii. ix. 98 How was it, that sightful manna in deserte to children of Israel was spirtuel mete? 1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde Hh vij, These vaynes appering..immediatly vnder the skyn, very conspicuous and syghtful.
2. Endowed with sight; seeing. Also fig.
1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits (1596) 59 The vnder⁓standing groweth more sharpe and sightfull. Ibid. 97, I cannot forgoe to thinke, that the reasonable soule seuered from the body..hath a power sightfull. 1613Chapman Masque Inns of Crt. Plays 1873 III. 106 Tis passing miraculous that your dul and blind worship should so sodainly turne both sightful and witful.
3. Sightly, pleasant to the eye.
1565Stapleton tr. Bede's Hist. Ch. Eng. 180 His priest..set forth the buildinges with divers comely and sightfull workes. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xvi. 11 The fulnesse of joye is matched ageinste the syghtfull entycements of the worlde.
Hence † ˈsightfulness, the power of seeing. Obs.
a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. (1605) 149 Let vs not winke though void of purest sightfullness. Ibid. 219 My praier is Thou maist loue her, that I may see thy sightfullnesse. |