a. Chiefly Sc. Obs. [f. ENVY sb. + -FUL.] Full of envy, malice or spite. Const. of.
1450–1530. Myrr. Our Ladye, 183. The enuyful sturrer and suggestoure.
1549. Compl. Scot., vii. (1872), 71. Aduerse fortoune hes bene inuyful contrar my veil fayr.
1594. J. Melvill, Diary, 194. Close the mouthes of invyfull sclanderers.
a. 1651. Calderwood, Hist. Kirk (1843), II. 353. Their latent adversareis, invyfull of their place and vocatioun.
