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unˈhealthful, a.
[un-1 7.]
1. = unhealthy a. 1.
1580Sidney Ps. xxii. i, My God,..from me why is thy presence taken? Soe farre from seeing mine unhealthfull eyes. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme i. xv. 95 They be small, alwaies leane, vnhealthfull, and their flesh of small relish. 1683Tryon Way to Health 202 These latter sort of People..are certainly the most unhealthful men in the World. 1737Bolingbroke Study Hist. vii, Charles the second: an unhealthful youth. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 81 Many come into the world maimed, weakly, and unhealthful.
absol.1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 164 That you may never in the same manner judge rich and poor,..the healthful and unhealthful.
b. Of life, growth, etc.
1595in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. iii. IV. 124 In my declyninge and unhealthfull yeres. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 13 Of an vnhealthfull..and painfull life men are so weary, as they would seeke for death. 1786Abercrombie Gard. Assist. 247 Any plants of an infirm, unhealthful, stunted..growth. 1831Willis Poem Brown University 88 Unhealthful fires burn constant in his eye. 1895Atlantic Monthly Mar. 340 The bark peels away in strips, leaving them in white un⁓healthful nakedness.
2. = unhealthy a. 2.
1598Florio, Insalubre, vnholsome, vnhealthfull. 1653W. Ramesey Astrol. Restored 303 The Winter following will be very unhealthful and obnoxious to all creatures. 1683Dryden Life Plutarch in P.'s Lives I. 5 Being also expos'd to the winds which blew from that quarter, the town was perpetually unhealthful. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters I. 36 All countries where stagnant waters abound must be unhealthful. 1784Cowper Task iv. 363 The unhealthful East, That breathes the spleen, and searches ev'ry bone Of the infirm. 1841Myers Cath. Th. iii. §50. 193 Such Rest..is sweeter far than any which unhealthful indolence..can supply. 1865Mrs. Whitney Gayworthys xxiii, There was truly something in the air that had made the place unhealthful to her. |