Noteful

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Useful; serviceable.

    "[...] an introduction, 'after the statutes of our doctors,' to the theory of astrology, with tables of equations of houses, after the latitude of Oxford, and tables of dignities of planets, and other noteful things."

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"[...] an introduction, 'after the statutes of our doctors,' to the theory of astrology, with tables of equations of houses, after the latitude of Oxford, and tables of dignities of planets, and other noteful things."

Etymology

From Middle English noteful, notful (“useful”), from note (“use, need”), from Old English notu (“use, enjoyment”), from Proto-West Germanic *notu, from Proto-Germanic *nutō, *nutjō, *nutą (“use, enjoyment”), from Proto-Indo-European *newd- (“to acquire, make use of”) + -ful. Equivalent to note + -ful. Related to Old English nēotan (“to use, enjoy”), Old English nyttian (“to make use of, utilize”), Old English nytlīċ (“useful, profitable, beneficial”).

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