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Webster 1913 Edition


Mindful

Mind′ful

,
Adj.
Bearing in mind; regardful; attentive; heedful; observant.
What is man, that thou art
mindful
of him?
Ps. viii. 4.
I promise you to be
mindful
of your admonitions.
Hammond.
Mind′ful-ly
,
adv.
Mind′ful-ness
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition


Mindful

MINDFUL

,
Adj.
Attentive; regarding with care; bearing in mind; heedful; observant.
I promise to be mindful of your admonitions.
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? Ps.7.

Definition 2024


mindful

mindful

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Adjective

mindful (comparative more mindful, superlative most mindful)

  1. Being aware (of something); attentive, heedful. [from 14th c.]
    • 2011 December 10, Marc Higginson, “Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC Sport:
      Alex McLeish, perhaps mindful of the flak he has been taking from sections of the Villa support for a perceived negative style of play, handed starts to wingers Charles N'Zogbia and Albrighton.
  2. (obsolete) Inclined (to do something). [16th-19th c.]
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.5:
      These noble warriors, mindefull to pursew / The last daies purpose of their vowed fight, / Them selves thereto preparde in order dew […].

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  • mindful in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • mindful in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911