pithful
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
pithful (comparative more pithful, superlative most pithful)
- Full of pith.
- 1616, William Browne, “The Fourth Song”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. The Second Booke, London: […] Iohn Haviland, published 1625, →OCLC, page 128:
- For as in tracing / Theſe pithfull Ruſhes, ſuch as are aloft, / By thoſe that rais'd them preſently are brought / Beneath vnſeene: […]
Further reading[edit]
- “pithful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.