feckfuladj.

1568 in A. Macdonald Lett. Argyll Family (1839) 7 I culd nocht cum..without sum gret and fecfull purpois.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 108 Gif he be feckful, and haue grace to correcte maneris in wicked persones.

a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) 16632 Rycht fair he wes and feccfull als but fabill.

1606 W. Arthur & H. Charteris Rollock's Lect. 1st & 2nd Epist. Paul to Thessalonians (1 Thess.) iv. 49 Wher boldnes in preaching the Gospell is, there is effectualnes in it, & the man who hes this boldnes, is a fectfull man.

1678 R. MacWard Let. in Biographia Scoticana (1828) 429 He [sc. James Wallace] was the most faithful, feckful, compassionate, diligent, and indefatigable elder.

1722 W. Hamilton Life of Sir William Wallace iii 28 Great room he made..Till mony a feckful Chiel that Day was slain.

1728 A. Ramsay Epist. to W. Starrat 27 Feckfu folks can front the bauldest wind.

1788 Sc. Mag. Nov. 558 Your Muse is sic a feckfu' beast, She's no, like mine, aft gi'en to riest.

1811 R. Willan List Words W. Riding Yorks. Feckful, strong and brawny.

1822 A. Balfour Farmers' Three Daughters I. 82 I'm fain to try a' the ways I ken, but I find this the maist feckfu'.

1892 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Feckful, resourceful.

1895 R. Ford Tayside Songs 248 The feckfu' grip, an' the heart-hove sigh.

1926 ‘L. Moon’ Drumorty 108 It was clear that he was a feckful man in spite of his legs.

1981 Eng. World-wide 2 i. 8 Yet thir thrie scrievers wrait guid feckfu Scots.

1934 J. Agate in Sunday Times 15 Oct. 4/1 Or perhaps the Russian word for ‘feckless’ does not quite mean ‘feckless’? Mme. Ranevsky returns to her lover not out of her, so to speak, feckful sense of responsibility to a sick man, but because she is still in love with him.

1990 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 9 Nov. c34 The unfailingly feckless Bertie Wooster and his valet, the formidably feckful Jeeves.

2002 Sunday Times (Nexis) 31 Mar. (Features section) [He announced] that a lot of parents are feckless... Nobody could argue with the need for parents to be more feckful.

a1614 J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 78 He conceavit the best grounds of maters weill, and could utter tham fearlie, fullie, and fecfullie.

1723 M. Ward Earnest Contend. Faith 153 That great man of God, who hath so faithfully, so fectfully, and so zealously served his Generation.

1985 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 9 Nov. c34 It is one of Greg's favorite maxims—others being ‘Nonexcessive excess is worse than moderation’,..‘Fecklessness should be pursued feckfully’, [etc.].