availful
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English
Etymology
Adjective
availful (comparative more availful, superlative most availful)
- (obsolete) Profitable, useful; of much avail.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:, II.10:
- These Logicall and Aristotelian ordinances are not availfull [translating à propos] for me, who onely endevour to become more wise and sufficient, and not more wittie or eloquent.