fountful

comparative more fountful · superlative most fountful

1. archaicpoeticFull of fountains or springs.

   c. 1718, Alexander Pope (translator), The Iliad of Homer, Book XV 'Go wait the Thunderer's will,' Saturnia cried, / 'On yon tall summit of the fountful Ide: / There in the Father's awful presence stand, / Receive and execute his dread command.'

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   The golden pleasures of love and song will me whole And in fountful recesses I'll repeat (beyond the ear of shepherds) The stories I heard in a dream, and your lambent kisses I stole And stood upon a hill surrounded by songful birds

   1959, Mehdi Ali Seljouk, My Goddess: A Devotional Epic, page 31

2. Gushing.

   ...foliage where fountful rivers run and limpid pools lie beneath plashy rocks.

   2001, “Big Walls in Kenya”, in The Alpine Journal, volume 106, page 25

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   Dost thou explore Sabrina's fountful source, Where huge Plinlimmon's hoary height afoends;

   1766, Robert Dodsley, A Collection of Poems, volume 4, page 62

   Far beyond the tangible love goeth When the matron's holy fountful breast Of the slumbering infant's breathings knoweth, Distant in its rosy curtained nest :

   1875, Charles Curle, “Breathings of the Invisible”, in Wind Tossed Leaves Reclaimed, page 3