fountful

fountful

English

Etymology

fount +‎ -ful

Adjective

fountful (comparative more fountful, superlative most fountful)

1. (poetic, archaic) Full of fountains or springs.
   • c. 1718, Alexander Pope (translator), The Iliad of Homer, Book XV

     'Go wait the Thunderer's will,' Saturnia cried, / 'On yon tall summit of the fountful Ide: / There in the Father's awful presence stand, / Receive and execute his dread command.'

   • 1959, Mehdi Ali Seljouk, My Goddess: A Devotional Epic, page 31:

     The golden pleasures of love and song will me whole And in fountful recesses I'll repeat (beyond the ear of shepherds) The stories I heard in a dream, and your lambent kisses I stole And stood upon a hill surrounded by songful birds

2. Gushing.
   • 1766, Robert Dodsley, A Collection of Poems, volume 4, page 62:

     Dost thou explore Sabrina's fountful source, Where huge Plinlimmon's hoary height afoends;

   • 1875, Charles Curle, “Breathings of the Invisible”, in Wind Tossed Leaves Reclaimed, page 3:

     Far beyond the tangible love goeth When the matron's holy fountful breast Of the slumbering infant's breathings knoweth, Distant in its rosy curtained nest :

   • 2001, “Big Walls in Kenya”, in The Alpine Journal, volume 106, page 25:

     ...foliage where fountful rivers run and limpid pools lie beneath plashy rocks.