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Full of deeds or exploits; active; stirring. [R.] "A deedful life." Tennyson.

Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased. "Defunct organs." Shak. The boar, defunct, lay tripped up, near. Byron.

Death. [Obs.] After defunction of King Pharamond. Shak.

Funereal. [Obs.] "Defunctive music." Shak.

To disorder; to make shapeless. [Obs.] Shak.

Highly pleasing; affording great pleasure and satisfaction. "Delightful bowers." Spenser. "Delightful fruit." Milton.

Secret; hence, lonely; sad; mournful. [Obs.] "Dernful noise." Spenser.

Meritorious. [R.] Beau. & Fl.

Full of design; scheming. [R.] -- De*sign"ful*ness, n. [R.] Barrow.

Filled with desire; eager. [R.] The desireful troops. Godfrey (1594).

The state of being desireful; eagerness to obtain and possess. [R.] The desirefulness of our minds much augmenteth and increaseth our pleasure. Udall.

Hopeless. [Obs.] Spenser.

Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate; malicious. -- De*spite"ful*ly, adv. -- De*spite"ful*ness, n. Haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters. Rom. i. 30. Pray for them which despitefully use you. Matt. v. 44. Let us examine him with despitefulness and fortune. Book of Wisdom ii. 19.…

Full of devices; inventive. [R.] A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread. Chapman.

In a deviceful manner. [R.]

Full of devotion. [R.]

Material which, in the process of catalysis, has diffused or passed through the separating membrane.

extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information. Thence diffuse His good to worlds and ages infinite. Milton. We find this knowledge diffused among all civilized nations. Whewell.

Spread abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse. It grew to be a widely diffused opinion. Hawthorne. -- Dif*fus"ed*ly, adv. -- Dif*fus"ed*ness, n.

In a diffuse manner.