timefuladj.n.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) James v. 7 Paciently suffringe, til he receyue tymeful and lateful [a1425 L.V. adds fruyt; 1526 Tyndale the yerly and the latter rayne; L. temporaneum et serotinum].

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Deut. xi. 14 He schal ȝyue to ȝoure lond reyn tymeful and late [L. pluviam temporaneam et serotinam].

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Jer. v. 24 Oure Lord God, that ȝiueth to vs reyn tymeful, and lateful [L. pluviam temporaneam et serotinam] in his tyme.

c1390 W. Hilton Expos. Qui habitat & Bonum Est (1954) 49 Þe lengþe of dayes is þe endeleshed of blessed lyf..hit schal be al-wey day & o day..o day is likned to þe lengþe of mony dayes, ffor hit is lengore þen alle tymeful dayes.

?a1475 (a1396) W. Hilton Scale of Perfection (Harl. 6579) ii. xxiv. f. 89^v (MED) Þe niȝt is a tymeful space bitwix two daies.

1681 Duke of Buckingham Poet. Refl. Absalom & Achitophel 5 What timeful Pains can Rhymers take, When they'd for Crowds of Men much Penplot make?

1853 G. Macilwain Mem. J. Abernethy I. v. 75 He was observant of cases at the hospital (a very timeful occupation).

1908 Mind 17 410 All relevant ideas should be welcomed, doubtless, as provisional only; but, as there is no timeless or timeful eternity of truth for education, their provisional nature is not fatal.

1971 G. Urang Shadows of Heaven iv. 151 Reality itself is timeful, historical.

2010 M. G. Cartwright Exploring Christian Mission beyond Christendom 71 Participation in this process of conversion was an intensive timeful process, often taking months or years.

a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) cxliv. 16 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 270 Þou giues þar mete in time fultide [read timeful tide; L. in tempore opportuno].

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. vi. §9. 97 Interrupting..all offer of timefull returne towards God.

1782 G. Chalmers Introd. Hist. Revolt Colonies I. 363 A timeful discovery disappointed their flagitious purpose.

1825 T. Carlyle Life Schiller ii. 92 The timeful change of Christendom;..The universal Spring that shall make young The countenance o' th' Earth.

1869 Sunday School Teacher 2 27/2 The mighty impetus given to the cause of Sunday schools on the continent of Europe, a movement than which none has been more timeful, laudable, or promising of late years.

1908 Phi Gamma Delta Dec. 270 Serious suggestions on timeful topics were made by the old men.

1838 C. Webbe Man about Town II. 78 The timeful, tuneful accompaniment of their [sc. a pair of spurs] clink, clink, clink over the stones.

1882 Proc. 26th Ann. Conclave Grand Commandery Knights Templar Michigan 52 The graceful, timeful, nodding of the white plumed chapeau, keeping measure to the music of the bands.

1912 Lyceumite & Talent Apr. 32/1 It's so timeful and dancy that it would give the ‘Ossified Man’ the St. Vitus dance.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iv. ii. §16. 198 The smoke being timefully discouered, hee recouered the Sea-shore with the losse of sixteene of his men.

1786 G. Chalmers Estimate Compar. Strength Great-Brit. (new ed.) 132 All these encouragements had been given in vain, had not the course of circulation been kept full and current, and the coin timefully reformed.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iii. iii. 103 Warned by friend Talleyrand,..he timefully flits over the marches.

1903 P. W. E. Hart Jason—Nova Scotia v. 56 The young woman,..blushing mightily at the admiring gaze of him who had so timefully arrived to her aid.

1997 L. Rae Eval. Approaches Training & Devel. iii. 51 What did the learner learn as new material, have usefully confirmed or be timefully reminded of?

1898 Werner's Mag. 21 85/1 We have often seen little guttermaidens revolving gravely to the sound of a barrel-organ with a timefulness that would shame many a drawing-room heroine.

a1943 R. G. Collingwood Idea of Hist. (1946) v. i. 212 Just as history is not the same thing as change, so it is not the same thing as ‘timefulness’, whether that means evolution or an existence which takes time.

1962 H. C. Weston Sight, Light & Work (ed. 2) v. 167 The changeability and the ‘timefulness’ of daylighting have already been mentioned.

2001 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 May g1 Rather than imagining that Lawrence's art speaks timeless artistic truths, we may need to recognize its timefulness, and that the ideal time for it is now.