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funest, a. Now rare.|fjuːˈnɛst|
Also 7 funeste.
[ad. F. funeste, ad. L. fūnestus, f. fūnus: see funeral.]
Causing or portending death or evil; fatal, deadly, disastrous; deeply deplorable.
1654tr. Scudery's Curia Pol. 96 How funest and direfull must my conceptions be, looking upon her prison all hanged with black. 1671True Non-conf. 418 This execution was..one of the funeste effects of the war. 1727Swift God's Rev. agst. Punning Wks. 1755 III. i. 169 Scarce had this unhappy nation recovered these funest disasters. 1865Longfellow To Italy 3 The dower funest of infinite wretchedness.
Hence † fuˈnestal, † fuˈnestous adjs. [see -al, -ous] = funest. † fuˈnestate v. [f. L. fūnestāt-: see -ate3.] trans. To make funest or disastrous (Cockeram 1623). † funeˈstation [see -ation], ‘pollution by touching a dead body’ (Coles 1676).
1555Eden Decades 151 A court or yarde nere vnto this funestal place. 1647W. Browne tr. Polexander I. 90 Have pity on a wretch to whom both life and death are equally funestous. 1650Howell Giraffe's Rev. Naples 69 With such funestous preparatifs. 1689Myst. Iniq. 10 That funestous War betwixt Charles the First and the Parliament. |