English

Alternative forms

• behoofful
• behooveful (US)

Adjective

behoveful ‎(comparative more behoveful, superlative most behoveful)

1. (archaic) Needful or proper; behoving; beneficial.
   • 1591, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, First Folio 1623, IV.3:

     No Madam, we haue cul'd such necessaries / As are behoouefull for our state to morrow […].

   • 1600, Christopher Sutton, Disce Mori: Learn to Die, 1839 ed. edition, Chapter IV:

     How behoveful it is for every Christian man soberly to meditate of his end.

   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:

     she forsaketh and leaveth us to the hazard of fortune; and by art to quest and finde out those things that are behovefull and necessarie for our preservation […].