† healfuladj.
Obsolete.
Fraught with health, well-being, safety, salvation; wholesome, salutary.
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the world > health and disease > [adjective] > of health: good > conducive to health
goodOE
healfulc1340
hailsome1372
haila1393
wholesomea1398
halesomea1400
wholefulc1443
salutairec1450
soundc1460
healsomec1475
healthful1495
saluberrime1509
laudable?1518
sanative1548
healthy1552
healthsomea1563
salutiferous1604
non-natural1621
salutary1649
sanitiferous1657
saniferousa1706
constitutional1750
sanitary1853
healthward1884
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > [adjective] > conducive to
healfulc1340
savablea1500
c1340 R. Rolle Prose Treat. 1 Ihesu es als mekyll to be mene als saueoure or helefull.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 305 Þis lond haþ hoot welles and heleful.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xv. 67 Þe Ewangels, in þe whilk es helefull teching and sothefastnes.
c1480 (a1400) St. Pelagia 206 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 210 [He] Iniungit hyr heileful pennance.
a1563 J. Bale Sel. Wks. (Parker Soc.) 122 Healful remedies to know and to withstand the privy suggestions and the apert temptations of the fiend.
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