effectuous

Adjective

1. Effective; efficacious.
   • As if that piece were ſweeter which the wolf had bitten, or the raven had pick'd, and more effectuous : - 1633 (first performance), Ben Jonson, “A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy […]”, in The Works of Beniamin Jonson, […]...
   • and that the said church, thus godly used by the servants of the Lord in the Lord's true service, for the effectuous presence of God's grace (wherewith he doth by his holy word and promises endue his people there...
   • We shall indubitably have the opportunity of forming, from this able dissertation, a careful and unsurpassed analysis of our present indigenous conditions and derive some comprehensive idea of those most puissantly...
2. Heartfelt; emotional.
   • Rycht excellent, rucht hie and mychty prince, oure derrest brother and uncle, we commend ws unto yow in oure maist effectuous and heartlie manere. - 1541 October 22, James V, Letter to Henry VIII:
   • And moore over our saide derrest moder haith sent unto the saide Busshopps and Priour of Saint Andrewes many divers tender and effectuous writingges to the effecte aforesaid. - 1836, Great Britain. Record Commission,...
   • at this present we cannot (weighing the duty which we owe to such as are afflected for their conscience in that profession) but by our most effectuous and earnest letter interpone us at your hands to stay any harder...