a. Obs. [f. WLAT sb. + -FUL.]

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  1.  Nauseous, loathsome.

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c. 1230.  Hali Meid. (1922), 35 (MS. Titus). Hit is wlateful þing for to þenke þron; & for to speke þer-of, ȝet wlatefulre.

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a. 1300.  E. E. Psalter xiii. 2. Forbroken and wlatful made þai are In þair thoghts.

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1340.  Ayenb., 241. Þe wordle him hild uor uyl and uor wlatuol.

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c. 1450.  Mirk’s Festial, 47. Þe sede þat he ys conceyuet of, þat ys so fowle yn hymselfe and so wlatfull.

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  2.  That has a loathing (of something). rare.

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1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), II. 167. Ful vnpacient of pees … and wlatful of sleuþe [L. otium nauseat].

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