Meaning of fountful | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Full of fountains or springs.
   archaic, poetic
2. Gushing.

Examples

“c. 1718, Alexander Pope (translator), The Iliad of Homer, Book XV 'Go wait the Thunderer's will,' Saturnia cried, / 'On yon tall summit of the fountful Ide: / There in the Father's awful presence stand, / Receive and execute his dread command.'”

“The golden pleasures of love and song will me whole And in fountful recesses I'll repeat (beyond the ear of shepherds) The stories I heard in a dream, and your lambent kisses I stole And stood upon a hill surrounded by songful birds”

“Dost thou explore Sabrina's fountful source, Where huge Plinlimmon's hoary height afoends;”

“Far beyond the tangible love goeth When the matron's holy fountful breast Of the slumbering infant's breathings knoweth, Distant in its rosy curtained nest :”

“...foliage where fountful rivers run and limpid pools lie beneath plashy rocks.”

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