bountious

comparative more bountious · superlative most bountious

1. obsoleteObsolete form of bounteous.

   Not only Rain from bountious Heaven deſcends, / But Oceans with an After-Flood befriends;

   1736, A satyr on Lincolnshire, in a Letter from a Gentleman in Lincoln[shire] to His Friend in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, 2nd edition, London: […] M. Cooper, […], page 12

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   So our great God, who (bountious) euer keeps / Heer open Court, and th’ever-bound-les Deeps / Of ſweeteſt Nectar on vs ſtill diſtills / By twenty-times ten thouſand ſundry quills, / Would not our Grandſier to his Boord inuite, / Yer he with Arras his fair houſe had dight, / And, vnder ſtarry State-Cloaths, plaç’t his plates / Fill’d with a thouſand ſugred delicates.

   1611, The historie of Judith, in forme of a Poeme, page 156

   Hath got a man beſides your bountious dinner, / Well Knight, pray we come no more: / If we come often, thou maiſt ſhut thy doore.

   1613, W. S., The True Chronicle Historie of the Whole Life and Death of Thomas Lord Cromwell. […], London: […] Thomas Snodham

   Not far from Caſius, in whoſe bountious womb, / Great Pompeys duſt lies crowned with his tomb, / Weſtward, betwixt Arabia and Iudæa, / Is ſituate a Country, called Idumæa, / There dwelt a man (brought from his Lineage, / That for his belly, ſwopt his Heritage,) / His name was Iob, a man of upright Will, / Iuſt, fearing Heaven, eſchewing what was Ill, / On whom his God had heapt in higheſt meaſure, / The bountious Riches of his boundleſſe Treaſure, / Goods for his Children, Children to inherit;

   1630, Fra[ncis] Quarles, “Iob Militant: The Argument. […]”, in Divine Poems: […], London: […] Iohn Marriott, […], section I, page 175