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furthersome, a.|ˈfɜːðəsəm|
Also 9 Sc. for-, furdersome.
[f. further v. or adv. + -some.]
1. Adapted to further or help forward, advantageous, helpful. Const. to.
1626W. Sclater Expos. 2 Thess. (1629) 3 That state, that is most furthersome to Gods seruice. 1637Declar. Pfaltzgrave's Faith 19 It is most comfortable and further⁓some vnmeasurably to the believers. 1827Carlyle Germ. Rom. IV. 242 A principle which he had often..perceived for himself to be furthersome and reasonable. 1832Fraser's Mag. VI. 387 So furthersome an instrument Honorio would never leave behind. 1845Carlyle Cromwell (1871) I. 68 Two little pieces of advice which may prove furthersome to him. 1880Academy 23 Oct. 301/1 An interesting performance, highly furthersome to the interests of the drama.
2. Inclined to go forward; rash, venturous.
1862A. Hislop Prov. Scot. 195 They are eith hindered that are no furdersome. 1896‘Ian Maclaren’ Kate Carnegie (ed. 2) 118 He's young and fordersome (rash), but gude stuff for a' his pliskies (frolics). |