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successful, a.|səkˈsɛsfʊl|
[f. as prec. + -ful.]
1. Of persons: That succeeds or achieves success, esp. (in recent use), that attains to wealth or position, that ‘gets on’.
1588Shakes. Tit. A. i. i. 66 The good Andronicus,..Successefull in the Battailes that he fights. 1617Moryson Itin. ii. 24 The Iris Kerne..became so disasterous to the English, and successefull in action.., as they shaked the English governement. 1661Boyle Style Script. Ep. Ded., It hath been observ'd, that Secular Persons of Quality..are generally much Successfuller in Writing of Religion..than..Men in Orders. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 351 They had been..pretty successful in their navigation. 1805Scott Let. in Lockhart (1837) II. ii. 54 If I have been at all successful in the paths of literary pursuit. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xi. 83 It failed; we tried again, and were successful. 1870E. Peacock Ralf Skirl II. 271 Mackenzie was a successful man. 1878Jevons Primer Polit. Econ. 60 Educated men who have not been successful become secretaries, house-agents,..and the like.
b. transf. of things.
1848J. Forster O. Goldsm. 377 There was nothing to make the town half so fond of a man..as a successful play. 1855Orr's Circ. Sci., Inorg. Nat. 132 Great and successful works of art are among the most noble..of all human triumphs. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. I. 166/2 The clock was a highly successful work of the art of the period. 1890W. J. Gordon Foundry 200 The Times, and..the Daily News, and many others of the successful papers in the provinces and on the Continent.
2. Of actions, conditions, etc.: Attended with, characterized by, or resulting in success.
1588Shakes. Tit. A. i. i. 172 And welcome Nephews from succesfull wars. 1596― Tam. Shr. i. ii. 158 And perhaps with more successefull words Then you. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 79 In..rare workes of Art, we are not so much taken with the beautie it selfe, as with the successfull boldnesse of Art. 1651Hobbes Leviath. Rev. 392 They justifie all the successefull Rebellions. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. vii, At this he laughed, and so did we: the jests of the rich are ever successful. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xix. v. V. 502 The successfullest campaign that ever was. 1891Speaker 2 May 532/2 The jugglery of words was never more successful than in this distinction without a difference.
†3.
a. Bringing success, propitious. Obs. rare.
c1592Marlowe Jew of Malta i. i, Making..the winds To driue their substance with successefull blasts.
†b. Conducive or necessary to success. Obs.
1657Austen Fruit Trees i. 135 It is very succesfull that we proportion Grafts and stocks in Grafting. |