a. [f. BLITHE sb. or ? a. + -FUL; cf. blissful.]
† 1. Kindly, friendly. Cf. BLITHE a. 1. Obs.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 4078. Ne wald þai apon him sei … with blithful ei. Ibid., 8547. And … spak wit blithful [v.r. blisful] chere.
a. 1300. E. E. Psalter cxi[i]. 5. Blithefull man he es for-þi.
2. Joyous, joyful; = BLITHE a. 2, 3.
1530. Lyndesay, Test. Papyngo, 627. Edinburgh … Within quhose boundis rycht blythfull haue I bene.
1648. Herrick, Poems (1869), I. 245. Live here blithefull, while ye may.
1837. Blackw. Mag., XLII. 552. That blitheful noise.
