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† inˈfestuous, a. Obs.
[irreg. f. L. infest-us (infest a.) or infest v.2, after adjs. in -uous: cf. infectuous.]
= infestious.
1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 64 There fell such an infestuous vnsaciable famine amongst them. 1604Supplic. Masse Priests §1 The two Kingdomes (which not seldome in former times have beene much infestuous one to the other). 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 426 Baduini..alike infestuous to neighbour and traveller. 1712H. More's Antid. Ath. i. viii. Schol. 151 The infestuous shafts of the accurate and sharp Wits.
Hence † inˈfestuously adv. Obs.
1604Supplic. Masse Priests §39 In driving away divels also from the places they most infestuously haunted. |