charmful

comparative more charmful · superlative most charmful

1. archaicpoeticAbounding with charms; charming.

   his charmful lyre

   1656, Abraham Cowley, Davideis

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   The third of veils again,— / So telleth Little Love,— / Is private in its skein, / For her exactest fane, / And for her special dove. / [...] / 'Tis made of wax of bees, / Of fairy wax, fay bees, / And in its charmful frieze, / Letteth no public breeze / Canvass the wifelet's glees.

   1857, J[ames] J[ohn] G[arth] W[ilkinson], “The Fairy Veils”, in Improvisations from the Spirit, London: W. White, […]; Manchester: Dunnill and Palmer, →OCLC, pages 219 and 220