Lifeful

/ˈlaɪf.fʊl/ · adjective

Meaning

Bestowing life; enlivening..

Definitions by Sense

1. Bestowing life; enlivening.
2. Full of vitality; lively and exuberant.
3. Characteristic of life and living things.
4. In a lifeful manner; full of life.
5. A quantity that fills a lifetime.

Example Sentences

Her gentle hart […] Began some smacke of comfort new to tast, / Like lyfull heat to nummed senses brought […].

Christianity is operating among them in two ways; it exhibits its own glorious life amidst the decadence of antique idolatries, they grow old, and are stricken by the touch of ever-changing time, while Christianity puts forth the vitality and vigour of perennial youth; and while it is itself lifeful, and healthful as it is beautiful, it is gradually contributing to the decay of all the old superstitions that yet stand in ponderous and gloomy magnitude around it.

Hence, factually and mathematically, the cogeneracy, intimate relation and actual likeness existing between the earth's life-blood and man's clearly appear in proportions of about 95 to 5, since animal blood consists of about 95 per cent. water—a fact which, in turn, may prove water at least 95 per cent. more lifeful than human blood, which, excepting water, seems essentially to appear the most lifeful substance yet found — save and except, possibly, iron, which, though hitherto considered "dead," proves an enlivener of coursing blood, water, and hence animal life.

Cheering the dogs to the chase across the "dew spread lawn," he would "drink deep cooling draughts of lifeful air," returning .with a keen zest to the joys of calm philosophy.

Set all your things in seemly good array Fit for so joyful day, The joyfulst day that ever sun did see, Fair Sun, shew forth thy favourable ray, And let thy lifeful heat not fervent be For fear of burning her sunshiny face, Her beauty to disgrace.

Each vibration, a divine song In the furious exposition. The restless dance goes on and on Till finite force fills infinite horizon, Till the booming bang of the lifeful Om Reaches back its creative womb.

Instead of the olden spirit of enterprise, the city seemed to be the home of inertness—one grey and great temple of lassitude. Except the few money-getting American merchants who sojourned there, the only lifeful creatures to be met with are the myriads of insects that swarm in every house, as I found, to my great discomfort, on my second visit; not remaining sufficiently long on my first, to acquire a knowledge of their numbers and strength.

Like the "little child, a limber elf" in the Conclusion to Part II of "Christabel," this faery child quite bubbles over with "lifeful glee,"

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• more lifeful
• most lifeful
• lyfull
• lifefuls

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