Sc. and north. Obs. rare. [f. STEAD sb. + -FUL.] Serviceable.
1585–6. Reg. Privy Council Scot., IV. 52. The settling of a steidfull and continewing ordour of the ministeris stipendis.
a. 1600. Flodden F., vii. (1664), 67. Yet they such stedful faiths did bear.
