Painful
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster
Painful - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
PA'INFUL, a. Giving pain, uneasiness or distress to the body; as a painful operation in surgery.
1. Giving pain to the mind; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.
Evils have been more painful to us in the prospect, than in the actual pressure.
2. Full of pain; producing misery or affliction.
3. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service. The army had a painful march.
4. Laborious; exercising labor; undergoing toil; industrious.
Nor must the painful husbandman be tired.
Source of the article
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
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