a. Obs. Also -euus. [a. OF. charitos, -eus, in med.L. cāritōsus: see CHARITY and -OUS; cf. necessitous, calamitous.] Characterized by charity; charitable.
1340–70. Alex. & Dind., 894. Þat nis no chariteuus chois so schast for to libbe.
1393. Gower, Conf., I. 271. To him that wroughte charite He was ayeinward charitous.
