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wieldsome

adj

Etymology

From wield + -some.

  1. inherited from *waldaną✻ — “to rule”
  2. inherited from *waldan✻
  3. inherited from wieldan — “to control, subdue”
  4. inherited from wealdan — “to control, rule”
  5. inherited from welden
  6. formed as wieldsome — “wield + -some”

Definitions

  1. Characterised or marked by wieldiness

    Characterised or marked by wieldiness; easily wielded or managed.

    • […] Cesar […] commaunded that the Galleyes wherof the facion was more straunge to the sauage Britons, and the mouing more redy and wieldsome, should be remoued a lyttell from the shyps of Burthen […]
    • The wieldsome agencies are, again, two-fold. Those that are authorative and of the government, mandatory; the others in part or altogether voluntary are more directory than mandatory.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA