Adjective

(en adjective)

(dated) Supplying food.

* {{quote-book, year=1720, edition=1899 ed., author=Alexander Pope, title=The Iliad of Homer, work= citation

, passage=Athens the fair, where great Erectheus sway'd, That owed his nurture to the blue-eyed maid, But from the teeming furrow took his birth, The mighty offspring of the foodful earth.}}

* Wordsworth

Wastes too bleak to rear / The common growth of earth, the foodful ear.

* {{quote-book, year=1894, author=John Muir, title=The Mountains of California, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Of all the conifers

* {{quote-book, year=1903, author=Mary Hunter Austin, title=The Land Of Little Rain, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=It seems that most seeds are foodful in the arid regions, most berries edible, and many shrubs good for firewood with the sap in them. }}

Adjective

(en adjective)

Full of good or goodness; good; excellent; worthy; gracious; kind; friendly.

*1905 , Charles Wadsworth, Sermons :

Oh, all these are nothing else than God's glorious and goodful thoughts, embodied in beautiful and sublime forms, written radiantly on the blue of the sky or whispered musically in the voices of the universe. ''

*2011 , J L Walters, Bloomingulch :

"You'll see. A goodful and righteous adventure.” “A noble quest,” Shane added. “For the acquisition of happiness,” Lucas said.