sensefuladj.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. iv. sig. Cc6 The Ladie hearkning to his sensefull speach, Found nothing that he said, vnmeet nor geason, Hauing oft seene it tryde, as he did teach. View more context for this quotation

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vi. 224 And gaue thee power (as Maister) to impose Fit sence-full Names vnto the Hoast that rowes In waterie Regions.

1683 D. A. Whole Art Converse 44 Not sharp enough to conceive at the first..a senseful and witty word.

1798 J. Ebers New & Compl. Dict. German & Eng. Lang. II. 744/1 Nachdrücklich, significant, expressive, forcible, efficacious, nervous, senseful, great.

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 218 Compare this sixth section with the manful, senseful, irrebuttable fourth section.

1865 N. Wiseman Shakespeare 9 The printer, who, from a chaotic heap of seemingly unmeaning lead, draws out letter after letter, and so disposes them that they shall make senseful..lines.

1918 A. A. Brill Psychanalysis: its Theories & Pract. Applic. 361 As the child becomes older it is forced to..employ the words in their senseful meaning.

1985 Stud. in Soviet Thought 30 191 Within the confines of ideological language no senseful discourse can be carried out.

2006 Language 82 368 Are these not fully senseful names?

1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 70 Promethius, who celestiall fier Did steale from heauen, therewith to inspire Our earthly bodies with a sence-full mind.

1687 J. Norris Of Advantages of Thinking in Coll. Misc. 150 Men, otherwise senseful and Ingenious, quote such things many times out of an old dull Author..as would never pass even in ordinary conversation.

1710 L. Milbourne Moderate Cabal 29 Goddess whom all the senseful World adore, Whose Favour all the senseful World implore.

1868 Amer. Freedman June 408/1 They say we are the (most) senseful people that ever they saw before.