Definition of "bountious"
bountious
adjective
comparative more bountious, superlative most bountious
Quotations
So our great God, who (bountious) euer keeps / Heer open Court, and th’ever-bound-les Deeps / Of ſweeteſt Nectar on vs ſtill diſtills / By twenty-times ten thouſand ſundry quills, / Would not our Grandſier to his Boord inuite, / Yer he with Arras his fair houſe had dight, / And, vnder ſtarry State-Cloaths, plaç’t his plates / Fill’d with a thouſand ſugred delicates.
1611, The historie of Judith, in forme of a Poeme, page 156
Not far from Caſius, in whoſe bountious womb, / Great Pompeys duſt lies crowned with his tomb, / Weſtward, betwixt Arabia and Iudæa, / Is ſituate a Country, called Idumæa, / There dwelt a man (brought from his Lineage, / That for his belly, ſwopt his Heritage,) / His name was Iob, a man of upright Will, / Iuſt, fearing Heaven, eſchewing what was Ill, / On whom his God had heapt in higheſt meaſure, / The bountious Riches of his boundleſſe Treaſure, / Goods for his Children, Children to inherit;
1630, Fra[ncis] Quarles, “Iob Militant: The Argument. […]”, in Divine Poems: […], London: […] Iohn Marriott, […], section I, page 175