a. Also 9 Sc. for-, furdersome. [f. FURTHER v. or adv. + -SOME.]

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  1.  Adapted to further or help forward, advantageous, helpful. Const. to.

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1626.  W. Sclater, Expos. 2 Thess. (1629), 3. That state, that is most furthersome to Gods seruice.

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1637.  Declar. Pfaltzgrave’s Faith, 19. It is most comfortable and furthersome vnmeasurably to the believers.

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1827.  Carlyle, German Romance, IV. 242. A principle which he had often, in the course of life, perceived for himself to be furthersome and reasonable.

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1832.  Fraser’s Mag., VI. 387. So furthersome an instrument Honorio would never leave behind.

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1845.  Carlyle, Cromwell (1871), I. 68. Two little pieces of advice, which, if his experience resemble mine, may prove furthersome to him in this inquiry.

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1880.  Academy, 23 Oct., 301/1. An interesting performance, highly furthersome to the interests of the drama.

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  2.  Inclined to go forward; rash, venturous.

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1862.  Hislop, Prov. Scot. (1868), 299. They are eith hindered that are no furdersome.—They who are unwilling to do a thing are easily hindered.

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1896.  ‘Ian Maclaren,’ Kate Carnegie (ed. 2), 118. He’s young and fordersome (rash), but gude stuff for a’ his pliskies (frolics).

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