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▪ I. † inˈfestive, a.1 Obs. rare.
[f. infest v.2 + -ive.]
Tending to infest; troublesome, annoying.
1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 277/1 Yet was he..to him a most secret and infestive enimie. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. Epit. (1612) 356 When their owne ciuill warres were most intestine, and the Barbarians most infestiue to their Empire. c1611Chapman Iliad viii. 151, I will all their ships inflame, with whose infestive smoke..the conquer'd Greeks shall choke. 1704Cibber Careless Husb. Prol., The Garden of the Mind To no infestive Weed's so inclined, As the rank Pride.
▪ II. † inˈfestive, a.2 Obs. rare—0.
[ad. L. infestīv-us not pleasant (Gellius): see in-3 and festive.]
‘Without mirth or pleasantness.’
1623in Cockeram. 1656in Blount Glossogr.
So infeˈstivity (rare), absence of festivity; dullness.
1727in Bailey vol. II. 1755 in Johnson. 1855A. Manning O. Chels. Bun-ho. [in 18th c. style] xiii. 211, I was quite wicked to be secretly complaining merely because of the infestivity. 1882T. Hardy Two on Tower I. vi. 121 Lady Constantine's life of infestivity. |