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facinorous, a. Obs. exc. arch.|fəˈsɪnərəs|
Forms: 6 facynerous, 6–7 fascinorous, 7 faciner(i)ous, 6– facinorous.
[ad. L. facinorōs-us, f. facinor-, also faciner-, facinus a deed, esp. a bad deed, f. facĕre to do; see -ous. Cf. OF. facinereux, facinoreux.]
Extremely wicked, grossly criminal, atrocious, infamous, vile. Said both of persons and their actions. Very common in 17th c.
1548Hall Chron. (1809) 381 The people havyng in their freshe memorie the facinorous acte of there kynge. 1592in Strype Ann. Ref. IV. App. lxii. 95 Others they have cast into..Newgate..among the most facinorous and vile persons. 1627–77Feltham Resolves ii. lxxvi. 323 The world..is not so..facinorous, as it was in times of Paganism. 1656Artif. Handsom. 131 Things highly charged with sin..to a more facinorous and notorious degree. 1679Bedloe Popish Plot Ep. A b, Notwithstanding all their facinorous Performances. 1721Cibber Perolla Wks. 1727 IV. 314 The horrid Scroll Of Deeds facinorous. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxiii. 24 'Tis said, that father..with act impure stain'd the facinorous house.
Hence † faˈcinorously adv., faˈcinorousness.
1692tr. Sallust 154 Thus, by how much every one acted most facinorously, so much the more secure he thought himself. 1727–36Bailey, Facinorousness, Villainy, Wickedness. 1822E. Nathan Langreath II. 267 The facinorousness of your lover. 1841Borrow Zincali (1846) I. x. 103 Constantine the Great..condemned to death those who should practise such facinorousness. |