a. Obs. [irreg. f. L. fūti, futtil-is FUTILE + -OUS.] = FUTILE.
1607. S. Hieron, Defence, I. 171. These arguments … are futilous.
1631. R. Byfield, Doctr. Sabb., 11. A futilous distinction of of and to.
1643. True Informer, 30. The Authors … were worthlesse and meane futilous persons.
1647. Ward, The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America, 26. It is a most unworthy thing, for men, to spend their lives in making fidle-cases for futilous womens phansies.
1692. Washington, trans. Milton’s Def. Pop., viii. (1851), 201. Which is enough to discover how futilous you are, to say, as you have done, that it was a Pope.
1703. Bp. Patrick, Comm. 2 Sam. vi. 20. Not with a futilous, lascivious, and petulant joy, but with a pious and moderate.
