comfortable (2 was a common Eliz. sense)
1.
affording comfort, consolation, or help
All'sW. I. i. 87
“Be to my
mother,”
Rom. V. iii. 148,
Lr. I. iv. 330
“kind and ”
; of things Tw.N. I. v.
240,
R2 II. ii. 76
“ words,”
Lr. II. ii. 171,
Lucr. 164
“No star.”
2.
cheerful, ‘of
good comfort’
AYL. II. vi. 9
“be ,”
R3 IV. iv. 174, Cor. I. iii. 2, Tim. III. iv.
72.
