pensifuladj.

Brit.

/ˈpɛnsᵻf(ᵿ)l/, U.S.

/ˈpɛnsəf(ə)l/

Forms: late Middle English pencefull, late Middle English pencyfulle, late Middle English penseful, late Middle English pensefull, late Middle English–1500s pencyful, late Middle English–1500s pencyfull, late Middle English–1500s pensifull, late Middle English–1500s pensyful, late Middle English–1500s pensyfull, late Middle English–1500s (1800s– English regional (Yorkshire)) pensiful, 1500s pencifull. N.E.D. (1905) also records forms late Middle English penceful, late Middle English pencifull. See also penseful adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pensy adj., -ful suffix; pensive adj., -ful suffix.

Etymology: Either < pensy adj. + -ful suffix, or < pensive adj. + -ful suffix with reduction of the second syllable. Compare earlier pensive adj., and also pensifulness n.

Now English regional (Yorkshire). rare after 16th cent.

Thoughtful, meditative; anxious; melancholy.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > [adjective] > pensive

thoughtfulc1300

pensivea1393

pensya1450

thoughtya1450

pensiful?c1450

pensative1574

melancholy1600

pensived1609

penseroso1813

penserose1831

penseful1865

?c1450 Trivet's Life of Constance in F. J. Furnivall Originals & Analogues Canterbury Tales (1876) 247 (MED) The kyng was in a grete thought and pensyfull, bothe of the yonge mannes name and of the semblaunce of hys vysage un to hys wyfe, hys owne moder.

1485 W. Caxton tr. Paris & Vienne (1957) 6 Seyng hys doughter ful tryste & pensyful for thys.

1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) l. 193 Wherof he had no grete Ioye, but became pencefull.

1557 R. Edgeworth Serm. very Fruitfull sig. Civ ^v The passions of our fraile mortalitie, which made him to feare death, and to be pensyfull and heauye.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1011/2 He..was verie carefull and pensifull how to recouer his countrie againe.

1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Pensiful,..sorrowful.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pensiful
释义	pensifuladj. Brit. /ˈpɛnsᵻf(ᵿ)l/, U.S. /ˈpɛnsəf(ə)l/ Forms: late Middle English pencefull, late Middle English pencyfulle, late Middle English penseful, late Middle English pensefull, late Middle English–1500s pencyful, late Middle English–1500s pencyfull, late Middle English–1500s pensifull, late Middle English–1500s pensyful, late Middle English–1500s pensyfull, late Middle English–1500s (1800s– English regional (Yorkshire)) pensiful, 1500s pencifull. N.E.D. (1905) also records forms late Middle English penceful, late Middle English pencifull. See also penseful adj. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pensy adj., -ful suffix; pensive adj., -ful suffix. Etymology: Either < pensy adj. + -ful suffix, or < pensive adj. + -ful suffix with reduction of the second syllable. Compare earlier pensive adj., and also pensifulness n. Now English regional (Yorkshire). rare after 16th cent. Thoughtful, meditative; anxious; melancholy. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > [adjective] > pensive thoughtfulc1300 pensivea1393 pensya1450 thoughtya1450 pensiful?c1450 pensative1574 melancholy1600 pensived1609 penseroso1813 penserose1831 penseful1865 ?c1450 Trivet's Life of Constance in F. J. Furnivall Originals & Analogues Canterbury Tales (1876) 247 (MED) The kyng was in a grete thought and pensyfull, bothe of the yonge mannes name and of the semblaunce of hys vysage un to hys wyfe, hys owne moder. 1485 W. Caxton tr. Paris & Vienne (1957) 6 Seyng hys doughter ful tryste & pensyful for thys. 1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) l. 193 Wherof he had no grete Ioye, but became pencefull. 1557 R. Edgeworth Serm. very Fruitfull sig. Civ ^v The passions of our fraile mortalitie, which made him to feare death, and to be pensyfull and heauye. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1011/2 He..was verie carefull and pensifull how to recouer his countrie againe. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Pensiful,..sorrowful. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?c1450
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