tradeful
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tradeful (comparative more tradeful, superlative most tradeful)
- Full of trade; busy with commerce.
- 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet XV”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, signature B, recto:
- Ye tradefull Merchants that with vveary toyle, / Do ſeeke moſt pretious things to make your gain: […]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tradeful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)