a. Also spelful. [f. SPELL sb.1] Full of, abounding in, spells or magical power.

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1773–83.  Hoole, Orl. Fur., XV. 102. Here, while his eyes the learned leaves peruse, Each spelful mystery explain’d he views.

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1805.  T. Harral, Scenes of Life, III. 36. You … would fain persuade me, by your spelful art, that I can act.

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1865.  E. Burritt, Walk to Land’s End, 28. Eyes of every spellful influence.

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1889.  Z. B. Gustafson, in Harper’s Mag., Nov., 943.

                    And why, when I have spoken,
            Has she no silence broken,
So I know not if her accents are spellful as her eye?

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