eventfuladj.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 164 Last Scene of all, That ends this strange euentfull historie. View more context for this quotation

1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination ii. 64 The long series of eventful time.

1751 R. O. Cambridge Scribleriad ii. 9 Now all in silence eyed the godlike man, Who thus with tears th' eventful tale began.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 252 The eventful story of her [sc. Placidia's] life.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 173 The changes which fourteen eventful years had produced.

1874 J. L. Motley Life John of Barneveld I. i. 5 Barneveld's eventful life.

1910 H. Whitney Hunting with Eskimos vi. 104 Thus ended my first bear hunt in the Arctic, unsuccessful and disappointing, but certainly eventful.

1964 Internat. Jrnl. 19 410 It would be a poor writer who could not make something of such a fascinating and eventful life.

2000 D. Sedaris Me talk Pretty One Day (2001) 194 An eventful day for my mother might have involved a trip to the dry cleaner or a conversation with the potato-chip deliveryman.

2006 Independent 22 July (Mag.) 18 Cerys Matthews' musical career has been nothing if not eventful.

1756 J. Brown Athelstan i. iii. 7 Yes, I cou'd curse His Sword victorious, and wide wasting Arm That blasted all my Wreaths; and won the Praise Of this eventful Day!

1773 J. Langhorne Orig. Veil 4 The Man of Faith thro' Gerar doom'd to stray, A Nation waiting his eventful Way.

1797 A. Radcliffe Italian II. i. 10 A thousand times she turned about the eventful paper.

1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. vii. 61 Thalaba..waited calmly for the eventful day.

1891 Permanent Rec. Queen Victoria's State Visit Derby 116 Order was observed, as well as the dignity of the town upheld, on that eventful occasion.

1941 A. Eden in Times 6 Mar. 4/2 General Dill and I have been the guests of Greece at an eventful moment.

2006 R. L. Beisner Dean Acheson iv. 49 Acheson had banked on leaving with Byrnes but agreed to stay until the end of June. It was an eventful decision for Acheson.

1822 ‘Miss Aimwell’ Good-nature I. 183 In a state of doubtful convalescence, Emily remained two days, before doctor Selby entertained any confidence of her eventful recovery.

1826 J. Bentham in Westm. Rev. 6 474 To levy..any part..not exceeding..for any child, a moiety of such his, her, or their then eventful portion or portions.

1869 G. J. Whyte-Melville M. or N. I. xiii. 257 Pondering on Mrs. Duval's sufferings and the eventful reward of that good lady's constancy and truth.

1920 Amer. Fertilizer 28 Feb. 66/2 The change will be of no advantage to the fertilizer industry during the next few months, whatever the eventful outcome may be.

1795 J. Bird Castle Hardayne I. iv. 102 Alas! how have circumstances eventfully changed since I last beheld you.

1961 G. Davis World is my Country vii. 93 The day passed eventfully enough, with a constant stream of visitors.

2009 D. Gantt Decision & Destiny ii. 26 The week had ended less eventfully than it had begun.

1825 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 251 Those plottings and counterplottings, which are necessary to give a sufficient degree of action and eventfulness to the novel of real life.

1884 R. W. Church Bacon iv. 93 Bacon..saw..the critical eventfulness of the moment.

2013 S. Majumdar Prose of World 3 A colonial yearning for the excitement and eventfulness of the metropolis.