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Definition of Easeful
1. a. Full of ease; suitable for affording ease or rest; quiet; comfortable; restful.
Definition of Easeful
1. Adjective. full of ease, restful, comfortable ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Easeful
1. restful [adj] - See also: restful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Easeful
Literary usage of Easeful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated by John Colin Dunlop (1842)
"And while, O Sleep! thou closest up her sight, (Her sight where love did forge
his fairest dart,) O harbour all her charms in easeful plight! ..."
2. A History of English Literature by Edward Jermyn Mathew (1901)
"And with their murmur summon easeful sleep, To lay his golden sceptre on her brows.
Open the doors, and entertain my love; . Open, I say, anil as you open, ..."
3. On the Study of Celtic Literature ; And, On Translating Homer by Matthew Arnold (1883)
"... easeful, crowning moment« of a manner which is always |.ii."hed in another
key from that of prose, a manner ••ui'l heightened ; the Elizabethan style, ..."
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