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healthful, a.|ˈhɛlθfʊl|
[f. health n. + -ful.]
1. Promoting or conducive to bodily health; health-giving, wholesome, salubrious.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiv. xii. (1495) 473 Mount Effraym was most helthfull in ayre. 1559W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 180 These famous, and helthfull rivers, the Rhine, Danuby. 1694Acc. Sev. Late Voy. ii. (1711) 212 The Country seems much subject to Earthquakes, else very healthful. 1709–10Steele Tatler No. 128 ⁋4 Cleanliness and healthful Industry wait on all your Motions. 1877Thorold in Gd. Words XVIII. 16/1 The cheapest and healthfullest route..is by steamer.
b. Bestowing, promoting, or conducive to moral or spiritual welfare or prosperity; salutary, saving.
1382Wyclif 2 Macc. iii. 32 He offride for helthe of the man an helthful sacrifice [hostiam salutarem]. c1410Love Bonavent. Mirr. (Gibbs MS.) lf. 121 In þat furst makynge of þis helþfulle sacramente. 1560Becon New Catech. Wks. 1844 II. 201 His glorious passion and healthful death. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. v. 281 King Gregorie..setis out helthfull and gud lawis. 1642Declar. Lords & Com. 23 Nov. 2 Healthfull for the present State of this Kingdome. 1862D. Wilson Preh. Man II. xxiii. 369 Healthful elements of European civilization.
2. Of persons, their actions, etc.: Full of or characterized by health; enjoying good health; healthy. Now rare.
1550Coverdale Spir. Perle xv. Wks. (Parker Soc.) I. 138 When a man hath been a long season healthful and without any manner of sickness. 1667Duchess of Newcastle Life Dk. N. (1886) III. 208 By this temperance he finds himself very healthful. 1754–81Johnson L.P., Cave, He was generally healthful, and capable of much labour. 1862C. M. Yonge C'tess Kate i. (1880) 2 Kate was tall, skinny, and brown, though perfectly healthful.
b. Marked by intellectual or moral soundness.
1601Shakes. Jul. C. ii. i. 319 Such an exploit haue I in hand Ligarius, Had you a healthfull eare to heare of it. 1744Armstrong Preserv. Health i. (R.), In healthful body how A healthful mind the longest to maintain. 1831Macaulay Ess., Ld. Nugent's Hampden (1887) 205 A mind so great..so healthful and so well proportioned. 1884Manch. Exam. 14 Nov. 5/7 The Chinese will continue to be a clog upon the healthful progress of the world. |