grateful (gratful)

[ If you will do a grateful office to me, In person give this paper to a gentleman. Shirley, Love in a Maze, ii. 1. Now golden fruits on loaded branches shine, And grateful clusters swell with floods of wine. Pope , Autumn, 1. 74. The occupation [of watching sheep) was grateful to his mind, for its freedom, innocency, and solitude. Bancroft, Hist. U. S., II. 331. 2. Betokening or expre ing gratitude; denoting thankfulne . So many grateful altars I would rear Of gra y turf, and pile up every stone Of lustre from the brook, in memory Or monument to ages. Milton , P. L., xi. 323. Leave on Swift this grateful verse engraved, "The rights a court attack'd, a poet saved." Pope, Imit. of Horace, II. i. 223. gratify