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▪ I. † ˈwrackful, a.1 Obs.
Also 3 wracful, 4 wrakful, 5 -fulle.
[f. wrack n.1 + -ful.]
Characterized by resentment or anger; vengeful, angry.
c1230[implied in next]. 13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 302 Now God in nwy to Noe con speke Wylde wrakful wordez. Ibid. 541 Suche a wrakful wo for wlatsum dedez Parformed þe hyȝe fader. a1400Morte Arth. 3818 He wente at the gayneste, Wondis of thas wedirwyns with wrakfulle dynttys.
Hence † ˈwrackfully adv., vengefully. Obs.
c1230Hali Meid. 41 Hwen godd se wracfulliche fordemde his heh engel.
▪ II. † ˈwrackful, a.2 Obs. rare.
In 4 wrecful.
[OE. wræcful, f. wræc wrack n.1 + -ful.]
Full of misery; wretched.
c1311in Wright Pol. Songs (Camden) 256 For wille is red, the lond is wrecful; For wit is qued, the lond is wrongful.
▪ III. ˈwrackful, a.3 Now arch. and rare.
[f. wrack n.2 + -ful.]
1. Causing shipwreck; wreckful.
1558T. Phaer æneid ii. 64 To Syllas wrackfull shore with shypps approche we nye. 1583B. Melbancke Philotimus T iv b, That..shears the fruitles sande with wrakfull waues. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. ii. 353 To stand still firm against the roaring noise Of wrackfull Neptune. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. i. 326 Where king Latinus lent safe harbor for his Ships, with wrackfull tempests rent. 1623Drummond of Hawthornden Flowres of Sion xii. 6 These Lockes, of blushing deedes the gilt attire, Waues curling, wrackfull shelfes to shadow deepe. 1633T. Bancroft Gluttons Feauer F 2 b, A Vessell, neare some wrackfull strand.
2. Causing destruction or devastation; effecting damage or harm; destructive.
1578Mirr. Mag. 23 b, Then my delight was in the diery dent Of wrackful warre. 1594Carew Tasso (1881) 24 Eu'n so the king of streames..Beyond his banckes abroad all wrackfull goes. c1600Shakes. Sonn. lxv. 6 O how shall summers hunny breath hold out Against the wrackfull siedge of battring dayes? 1633T. Bancroft Gluttons Feauer B 6 Cracke all mine arteries with tortures tride, Yet must more stormes, more wrackfull woes abide? 1921Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 50/1 A people that..has not had its mind and feelings warped by that wrackful war.
3. Subject to, attended by, injury, harm, etc.
1581T. Howell Deuises B iv, To shunne the sheete of shame, Which had bewrapt her wrackfull blemisht name. 1612J. Davies (Heref.) Muses Sacr. Wks. (Grosart) II. 82/1 This Life, a Way; (a wrackfull way) that Wisedome lothes to proue. 1811Scott Don Roderick iii. vi, What wanton horrors marked their wrackful path! |