a. [f. CHARM sb.1 + -FUL.] Full of charms or spells, connected with magic; fig. full of alluring qualities, charming, delightful.
1656. Cowley, Davideis, I. (1678), 13. Bid his charmful Lyre to bring.
1747. Collins, Ode Manners, 39. As Fancy breathes her potent spell, Not vain she finds the charmful task.
1843. Fraser’s Mag., XXVII. 151. He is charmful and endearing in his private associations.
1879. Karl Blind, in 19th Cent., 1091. In our forefathers’ weird and charmful creed.
Hence Charmfulness.
1842. Fraser’s Mag., XXVI. 732. There was a charmfulness about his manner.
