a. [f. FORM sb. + -FUL.] Full of form or forms: a. Apt to create forms (of the imagination). b. Shapely.
1727–46. Thomson, Summer, 1617.
| As fleets the Vision o’er the formful Brain, | |
| This Moment hurrying wild th’ impassion’d Soul, | |
| The next in nothing lost. |
1798. Bloomfield, Farmer’s Boy, Winter, 289.
| By parents taught still to mistrust mine eyes, | |
| Still to approach each object of surprise, | |
| Lest Fancy’s formful visions should deceive | |
| In moon-light paths, or glooms of falling eve. |
1832. J. Wilson, The Maid of Elvar, in Blackw. Mag., XXXI. June, 999/2. Now he is familiar with Chantrey’s form-full statues; then, with the shapeless cairn on the moor, the rude headstone on the martyr’s grave.
