beadful
English
adj
Definitions
- (obsolete) Prayerful.
- Full of or having beads; beaded
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English bedeful suffix from English bead (prayer, request, later also bead, petition).
Origin
English
bead
Gloss
prayer, request, later also bead, petition
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bead English
- beadboard English
- beader English
- beadery English
- beadless English
- beadlet English
- beadlike English
- beadmaker English
- beadmaking English
- beadroll English
- beadsman English
- beadwork English
- beady English
- bedeman English
- immunobead English
- iodobead English
- jetbead English
- lovebead English
- macrobead English
- microbead English
- nanobead English
- bede Middle English
- bedeful Middle English