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infaust, a. rare.|ɪnˈfɔːst|
[ad. L. infaust-us unlucky, perh. through F. infauste (Cotgr. 1611).]
Unlucky, unfortunate, ill-omened.
1658Phillips, Infaust, or Infaustous, unlucky, unfortunate. 1668Charleton Ephes. & Cimm. Matrons ii. 17 Dismal and infaust visions. 1708Motteux Rabelais v. (1737) 231 O most infaust who optates there to live! 1848Lytton Caxtons ii. vii. xxvi, It was an infaust and sinister augury. 1870Lowell Study Wind. 303 Taurus, whose infaust aspect may be supposed to preside over the makers of bulls and blunders.
So † inˈfausting vbl. n. (rare—1), a rendering ‘infaust’, a boding of ill luck; † inˈfaustous a. (rare—0) = infaust.
1622Bacon Hen. VII 196 Hee did withall bring a kind of Malediction and Infausting upon the Marriage, as an ill Prognosticke. 1656Blount Glossogr., Infaustous, unlucky, unfortunate, dismal. 1658in Phillips. |