likeful meaning (archaic): definition, etymology and quotations

likeful

adj

Etymology From Middle English likful, licvol, equivalent to like + -ful.

Archaic, Dialectal, Humorous, Rare Likeable; pleasing; pleasant; agreeable.

[…] that they put the said word in al their English Bibles, with the likeful consent as before, when it is not in the Greeke at al.1973, original 1582, Gregory Martin, A Discoverie of the Manifold Corruptions of the Holy Scriptures:
[…] and can sometimes even churn up a huge and hazy cloud of closeknit mindgropings, which when written down might, with luck, reach across to other thinkbeasts and in them trigger wonderings of a likeful kind.1995, Allen Sture, Of Thoughts And Words:

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"This good food, I am thinking it is very likeful.2007, Brian Jacques, High Rhulain: