a. [f. TIDE sb. 3 b, 7 + -FUL.]

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  † 1.  Seasonable, opportune, right, fit, convenient, expedient. Obs.

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a. 1300.  E. E. Psalter xxxi. 7 [xxxii. 6]. For þat sal bid to þe with blisse Al halegh in tideful time [Wyclif nedful time].

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a. 1340.  Hampole, Psalter, cxliv. 16 [cxlv. 15]. Þou gifis þe mete of þaim in tydefull tyme.

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1382.  Wyclif, Jas. v. 7. An erthe tilyer abijdith precious fruyt of the erthe, paciently suffringe, til he receyue tymeful [v.r. tideful] and lateful.

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  2.  Having a full tide; filled with the tide.

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1622.  Drayton, Poly-olb., xix. 3. Stem vp his tyde-full streame, vpon that side to rise. Ibid., xxvi. 248. The lustie Salmon … stemming my tydeful Streame.

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1887.  Blackw. Mag., Oct., 539. Up fair Bristol’s tideful channel.

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  Hence † Tidefully adv., opportunely; † Tidefulness, a fit or expedient season; time of need.

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a. 1340.  Hampole, Psalter, ix. 9. Helpere in tydfulnesses in tribulacioun. Ibid., 22 [x. 1]. Þou dispises in tydfulnesis in tribulacyon [L. despicis in oportunitatibus in tribulacione]. Ibid. Nedfully [v.r. tidfully] þou suffirs vs to be angird and tribled.

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