Definition of "full"

Anybody can cure a curable disease if he happens to have the right drug at hand, but the treatment of a condition for which there is no positive cure makes much greater demands on the doctor, who has to be practical pharmacologist, human being, psychiatrist, and father confessor—he has, in fact, to be a proper physician in the fullest sense of the word.

1976 March 27, F. Dudley Hart, “History of the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis”, in British Medical Journal, volume 1, number 6012, page 763

Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. […] A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.

2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist

'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.

1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients

For on those evenings, when the moon is full and bright and clear, mothers and fathers in Siam tell their children to look up at the moon and then ask them what they see there.

1969, Alan S. Feinstein, Folk tales from Siam, page 82

Reading maketh a full man.

1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Studies”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret

Everyone is now full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions.

1693, [John Locke], “§7”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […]

The heart is so full that a drop overfills it.

1848, James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal

Ilia, the fair, […] full of Mars.

1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]

Mr. Coniff: That is the only evidence you gave of his being intoxicated, that his hat was on the side? […] Mr. Coniff: That is the only indication you gave the committee when you were asked if the judge was full, that his hat was on the side of his head; is that right?

1925, United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 1, Charges Against William E. Baker, U.S. District Judge

Prospero:I have done nothing but in care of thee,Of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, whoArt ignorant of what thou art; naught knowingOf whence I am, nor that I am more betterThan Prospero, master of a full poor cell,And thy no greater father.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene ii]

[…] full in the centre of the sacred wood

1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]

You know full well what makes me look so pale.

1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, act IV, scene I, verse 112

This cupboard […] this other one, His true wife's charge, full oft to their abode Yielded for daily bread the martyr's stone,

1880, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, William Blake, lines 9–12

It is full strange to him who hears and feels, When wandering there in some deserted street, The booming and the jar of ponderous wheels, […]

1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, section IX

I turned my head, and as I lay gasping in the throes of that awful struggle I could see that Leo was off the rock now, for the lamplight fell full upon him.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887

Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, […].

1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company

The swan's-down feather, That stands upon the swell at full of tide.

c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene ii]

Sicilian tortures and the brazen bull, Are emblems, rather than express the full Of what he feels.

1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Third Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […]

It is like, that the brain of man waxeth moister and fuller upon the full of the moon: [...]

a. 1622, Francis Bacon, Natural History, in The works of Francis Bacon, 1765, page 322

This earthly moon, the Church, hath her fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses, while the shadow of this sinful mass hides her beauty from the world.

a. 1656, Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (editor), Works, Volume VII: Practical Works, Revised edition, 1808 page 219

The September moon fulls on the 20th at 24 minutes past midnight, and is called the harvest moon.

1888 September 20, “The Harvest Moon”, in New York Times, retrieved 10 April 2013

"By the black cave of Atropos, when the moon fulls, keep thy tryst!"

1905, Annie Fellows Johnston, chapter 4, in The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation

"The moon fulls to-night, don't it?"

1918, Kate Douglas Wiggin, chapter 29, in The Story Of Waitstill Baxter

And thy diſciples fulleden men in thy name, in forgiueneſſe of her ſinnes.

1610 October, John Foxe, “An Old Ancient Writing Intituled, The Praier and Complaint of the Ploughman”, in Actes and Monuments of Matters Most Speciall and Memorable, Happening in the Church, with an Vniuersall Historie of the Same. for the Company of Stationers, book V, page 373, column 2