PENSIFUL also PENCEFUL(L), PENCIFUL, PENCYFULL, PENSEFUL, PENSYFUL ADJ. 1. thoughtful, meditative; anxious; melancholy, sorrowful ...c1450 obs. exc. Eng. dial. 2. proud, conceited, giving oneself airs ...1825 Sc. ETYMOLOGY from pense (n.) thought (obs.) or pensée (n.) a thought + -ful FIRST DOCUMENTED USE c1450 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Than the kyng was in a grete thought and pensyfull, bothe of the yonge mannes name and of the semblaunce of hys vysage un to hys wide, hys owne moder..." From: Originals and Analogues of some of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Trivet's Story of Constance - Edited by Frederick James Furnivall, Edmund Brock, and William Alexander Clouston
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