a. Now rare. [f. TIME sb. + -FUL.]

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  1.  Seasonable, due; = TIMELY a. 2.

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a. 1300.  E. E. Psalter cxliv. [cxlv.] 16. Þou giues þar mete in time ful tide.

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1614.  Raleigh, Hist. World, I. vi. § 9 (1634), 83. Interrupting … all offer of timefull returne towards God.

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1825.  Carlyle, Schiller, II. 92. The timeful change of Christendom;… The universal Spring that shall make young The countenance o’ th’ Earth.

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  † 2.  Early in season; = TIMELY a. 1. Obs.

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1382.  Wyclif, Jas. v. 7. Paciently suffringe, til he receyue tymeful and lateful [1388 adds fruyt; Vulg. temporaneum et serotinum; Tindale, the yerly and the latter rayne]. Ibid. (1388), Jer. v. 24. Oure Lord God, that ȝiueth to vs reyn tymeful, and lateful in his tyme.

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  † 3.  Occurring in or consisting of time; temporal, durational. Obs.

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a. 1400.  Hylton, Scala Perf., II. xxiv. (W. de W., 1494). The nyghte as a tymefull space bytwix dayes two.

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  Hence Timefully adv., with timely action.

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1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. III. iii. Warned by friend Talleyrand … he timefully fits over the marches. Ibid. (1845), Cromwell (1871), I. 105. The Five Members, timefully warned, were gone into the City.

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