a. Also 9 Sc. for-, furdersome. [f. FURTHER v. or adv. + -SOME.]
1. Adapted to further or help forward, advantageous, helpful. Const. to.
1626. W. Sclater, Expos. 2 Thess. (1629), 3. That state, that is most furthersome to Gods seruice.
1637. Declar. Pfaltzgraves Faith, 19. It is most comfortable and furthersome vnmeasurably to the believers.
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.
1832. Frasers Mag., VI. 387. So furthersome an instrument Honorio would never leave behind.
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.
1880. Academy, 23 Oct., 301/1. An interesting performance, highly furthersome to the interests of the drama.
2. Inclined to go forward; rash, venturous.
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.
1896. Ian Maclaren, Kate Carnegie (ed. 2), 118. Hes young and fordersome (rash), but gude stuff for a his pliskies (frolics).