a. [f. CHANGE sb. + -FUL.] Full of change, greatly given to change; changing, variable, inconstant (Chiefly poetic.)
1606. Shaks., Tr. & Cr., IV. iv. 99. When we will tempt the frailtie of our powers, Presuming on their changefull potencie.
1697. Dryden, Virg. Georg., I. 565. The changeful Temper of the Skies.
a. 1704. T. Brown, Sat. agst. Wom., Wks. 1730, I. 55. Woman, that various and that changeful thing.
1798. Southey, To a Friend, &c. The changeful April day.
1852. Keble, Chr. Year., 6th Sund. aft. Epiph. The changeful year.
Hence Changefully adv., Changefulness.
1857. G. A. Lawrence, Guy Livingstone, x. The gleams from the great burning logs lighted up … the polished walnut panels so changefully.
1777. Boswell, Johnson, II. 582. I complained of a wretched changefulness, so that I could not preserve … the same views.
1853. Robertson, Serm., Ser. III. xvii. 227. A day was coming when … this sad world was to put off for ever its changefulness.
