a. [f. AID sb. + -FUL.] Full of, or abounding in, aid; helpful.
1598. Rowlands, Betr. of Christ, 53. Christs night-disciple aidfull did agree, To take his bodie from that guiltie tree.
1603. Daniel, Epistles (1717), 342. Thy Worthiness, and England’s Hap beside Set thee in th’aidfull’st Room of Dignity.
1649. Hall, Cases of Consc., IV. i. (1654), 290. When hee might be likely by his coming forth to bee aidfull to his said Parents.
1850. T. T. Lynch, Theoph. Trinal, ix. 168. The fathers … are yet amongst us as beneficent and aidful spirits.
