Characterized by fits (convulsions or seizures).
Duncane is in his Graue: After Lifes fitfull Feuer, he ſleepes well, Treaſon ha's done his worſt: not Steele, not Poyſon, Mallice domeſtique, forraine Leuie, nothing, Can touch him further.
Characterized by sudden bursts of activity with periods of inactivity in between; intermittent, irregular, unsteady.
His breathing was fitful.
From fit (“convulsion, seizure; sudden burst of activity”) + -ful (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, with the sense of being full of, tending to, or thoroughly possessing the quality expressed by ...
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