fiendful
English
Adjective
fiendful (comparative more fiendful, superlative most fiendful)
- Full of fiendish arts or spirit.
- 1589–1592 (date written), Ch[ristopher] Mar[lowe], The Tragicall Historie of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus. […], London: […] Iohn Wright, […], published 1616 (1631 reprint), →OCLC, page [68]:
- Fauſtus is gone, regard his helliſh fall, / Whoſe fiendfull fortune may exhort the wiſe / Only to wonder at unlawfull things: […]
Derived terms
Further reading
- “fiendful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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