a. Poet. (Now rare.) [f. LENGTH sb. + -FUL.] Of great length, long.

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c. 1611.  Chapman, Iliad, XI. 182. He … shooke his lengthfull dart.

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1621.  G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., XIV. (1626), 295. The lengthfull keele.

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1715–20.  Pope, Iliad, XI. 359. The driver whirls his lengthful thong.

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1855.  Singleton, Virgil, I. 30. The latest stage Of such a lengthful life!

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