effectuous

comparative more effectuous · superlative most effectuous · alternative effectuose

1. obsoleteEffective; efficacious.

   As if that piece were ſweeter which the wolf had bitten, or the raven had pick'd, and more effectuous :

   1633 (first performance), Ben Jonson, “A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy […]”, in The Works of Beniamin Jonson, […] (Third Folio), London: […] Thomas Hodgkin, for H[enry] Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R[ichard] Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, published 1692, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

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   and that the said church, thus godly used by the servants of the Lord in the Lord's true service, for the effectuous presence of God's grace (wherewith he doth by his holy word and promises endue his people there present and assembled, to the attainment as well of commodities worldly, necessary for us, as also of all heavenly gifts and life everlasting), is called by the word of God (as it is indeed) the temple of the Lord and the house of God;

   1859, John Griffiths, The Two Books of Homilies Appointed to be Read in Churches

   We shall indubitably have the opportunity of forming, from this able dissertation, a careful and unsurpassed analysis of our present indigenous conditions and derive some comprehensive idea of those most puissantly effectuqal and efficient methods by which, at this most opportune time, we may arrive at a resultant conclusion and adopt the most effectuous means through whose agency we can attain the end and secure the results we so much desire.

   1904, Frank H. Wakefield, Marriage-limited, page 63

   ' Very effectuous,' butted in Mrs Frazer, 'very effectuous, and Mr Blow took a drink of it to make away with himself , but not enough.

   2023, George Bellairs, Dead March for Penelope Blow

2. obsoleteHeartfelt; emotional.

   Rycht excellent, rucht hie and mychty prince, oure derrest brother and uncle, we commend ws unto yow in oure maist effectuous and heartlie manere.

   1541 October 22, James V, Letter to Henry VIII

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   And moore over our saide derrest moder haith sent unto the saide Busshopps and Priour of Saint Andrewes many divers tender and effectuous writingges to the effecte aforesaid.

   1836, Great Britain. Record Commission, State Papers, page 315

   at this present we cannot (weighing the duty which we owe to such as are afflected for their conscience in that profession) but by our most effectuous and earnest letter interpone us at your hands to stay any harder usage of them for that cause;

   1842, Thomas Fuller, The Church History of Britain