effectuous

English

Alternative forms

effectuose

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɪˈfɛktjuəs/, /ɪˈfɛkt͡ʃuəs/

Adjective

effectuous (comparative more effectuous, superlative most effectuous)

(obsolete) effective
- 1633 (first performance), Ben Jonson, “A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy […]”, in The Works of Beniamin Jonson, […] (Third Folio), London: […] Thomas Hodgkin, for H[enry] Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R[ichard] Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, published 1692, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
  As if that piece were ſweeter which the wolf had bitten, or the raven had pick'd, and more effectuous :

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “effectuous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)