effectuous

English

Alternative forms

effectuose

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɪˈfɛktjuəs/, /ɪˈfɛkt͡ʃuəs/

Adjective

effectuous (comparative more effectuous, superlative most effectuous)

(obsolete) Effective; efficacious.
- 1633 (first performance), Ben Jonson, “A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy […]”, in The Works of Beniamin Jonson, […] (Third Folio), London: […] Thomas Hodgkin, for H[enry] Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R[ichard] Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, published 1692, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
  As if that piece were ſweeter which the wolf had bitten, or the raven had pick'd, and more effectuous :
- 1859, John Griffiths, The Two Books of Homilies Appointed to be Read in Churches:
  and that the said church, thus godly used by the servants of the Lord in the Lord's true service, for the effectuous presence of God's grace (wherewith he doth by his holy word and promises endue his people there present and assembled, to the attainment as well of commodities worldly, necessary for us, as also of all heavenly gifts and life everlasting), is called by the word of God (as it is indeed) the temple of the Lord and the house of God;
- 1904, Frank H. Wakefield, Marriage-limited, page 63:
  We shall indubitably have the opportunity of forming, from this able dissertation, a careful and unsurpassed analysis of our present indigenous conditions and derive some comprehensive idea of those most puissantly effectuqal and efficient methods by which, at this most opportune time, we may arrive at a resultant conclusion and adopt the most effectuous means through whose agency we can attain the end and secure the results we so much desire.
- 2023, George Bellairs, Dead March for Penelope Blow:
  ' Very effectuous,' butted in Mrs Frazer, 'very effectuous, and Mr Blow took a drink of it to make away with himself , but not enough.
(obsolete) Heartfelt; emotional.
- 1541 October 22, James V, Letter to Henry VIII:
  Rycht excellent, rucht hie and mychty prince, oure derrest brother and uncle, we commend ws unto yow in oure maist effectuous and heartlie manere.
- 1836, Great Britain. Record Commission, State Papers, page 315:
  And moore over our saide derrest moder haith sent unto the saide Busshopps and Priour of Saint Andrewes many divers tender and effectuous writingges to the effecte aforesaid.
- 1842, Thomas Fuller, The Church History of Britain:
  at this present we cannot (weighing the duty which we owe to such as are afflected for their conscience in that profession) but by our most effectuous and earnest letter interpone us at your hands to stay any harder usage of them for that cause;

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