a. Obs. [f. FORGE v. + -FUL.] Apt to forge, creative.
1751. Stormont, Elegy Frederick Pr. Wales, 13.
| Where are those hopes, where fled th’ illusive scenes | |
| That forgeful Fancy plan’d, what time the bark | |
| Stem’d the salt wave from Albion’s chalky bourn? |
1814. Cary, Dante, Purg., XXV. 62.
| For each limb | |
| Is in the heart by forgeful nature plann’d. |
