BENEFICIOUS ADJ. doing good, performing kind deeds ...1535 obs. ETYMOLOGY from Latin beneficium (benefit, kindness, favour) + -ous FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1535 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Finally, his good and gentle manner is all full of pleasure and comfort so kind, so friendly, so liberal and beneficious, so piteous and merciful, so ready in all opportunities, so mindful and circumspect, so dulcet and sweet in communication..." From: A Reading from a treatise The Ways to Perfect Religion, written in the Tower of London by John Fisher for his sister, Elizabeth, in 1535, shortly before his execution. - Bishop John Fisher
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