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ˈpoisonful, a. Obs. or dial.
[f. poison n. + -ful.]
Full of or containing poison; poisonous, venomous, deadly, baneful. a. lit.
1554Becon Supplic. Wks. 1563 II. iii. 22 Vnto these vnwholsome and pestilent and poysonfull Pastures the dryue the shepe. 1596Raleigh Discov. Gviana 26 There breed diuers poysonfull wormes and serpents. 1615W. Lawson Country Housew. Gard. (1626) 45 Poysonfull smoke. 1643Trapp Comm. Gen. xlv. 7 He makes of a poisonfull viper, a wholesome triacle. 1693I. Mather Cases Consc. (1862) 262 The vulgar Error concerning the Basilisks killing with the Look of his Poysonful Eye. [1855Robinson Whitby Gloss. s.v., ‘The house was parfitly puzzomful’.]
b. fig. Poisonous to the mind or morals.
1520Whitinton Vulg. (1527) 22 (20) What is so detestable to a man as this poysonfull couetyse? 1534― Tullyes Offices i. (1540) 20 Mischevous and poysonfull flaterers. 1662Hibbert Body Div. i. 233 They vented their damnable and poisonful doctrine. 1679C. Nesse Antid. agst. Popery 157 This is such a poisonful position.
Hence † ˈpoisonfully adv., venomously.
1599Broughton's Let. vii. 20 Marrow, verely serpentine and viperous,..poysonfully sprinkling his Grace. |