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▪ I. infortune, n.|ɪnˈfɔːtjʊn|
Also 5 yn-, 6 en-.
[a. F. infortune (Oresme, 14th c.); see in-3 and fortune. Cf. L. infortūnium.]
†1. Want of good fortune, success, or prosperity; misfortune, ill fortune, ill luck. Obs.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 1577 (1626) Þe werste kynde of infortune is þis. c1386― Knt.'s T. 1163 Noght was foryeten by the Infortune of Marte. c1450Lydg. Secrees 913 Be sodeyn Caas Or in necessyte, Or infortunys froward violence. 1491Caxton Vitas Patr. i. cxxx. (W. de W. 1495) 147 b/2 He shold take his Infortune in pacyence. 1513Bradshaw St. Werburge ii. 1603 A fyre by infortune rose up sodeinly. 1615Chapman Odyss. iii. 234 Our long-sustain'd infortune might be freed. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. lxiv. 262 For my greater infortune, the tempest cast my Brigandine upon the coast of this Country.
†b. with pl. A piece of ill luck; a misfortune, mishap. Obs.
c1477Caxton Jason 59 b, We haue had upon the see so many infortunes by tempeste of windes. 1544T. Phaer Pestilence (1553) K iij b, The lyfe whiche we lead here, is..subiecte to diseases, infortunes, and calamytyes. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 313 At this the dream-spellers were divided in their divinations; some interpreting it a fortune, some an infortune. 1653R. Sanders Physiogn. 193 Such lines have the signification of infortunes, and sundry hurtfull falls.
2. Astrol. An unfortunate or malevolent planet or aspect; esp. each of the planets Saturn and Mars. (Cf. fortune n. 8.)
1632Massinger City Madam ii. ii, Saturn out of all dignities..and Venus in the south angle elevated above him..and free from the malevolent beams of infortunes. 1651Culpepper Astrol. Judgem. Dis. (1658) 108 If the sign the Lord of the sixth possesseth, especially if he be an infortune, or a fortune infortunated. 1668Dryden Even. Love ii. i, The trine aspect of the two infortunes in angular houses. 1671Salmon Syn. Med. i. vi. 16 The Dragons Tail is called in Greek καταβιβάζων, an Infortune signifying Mischiefs, Scandals, Shame. 1881Proctor Poetry Astron. viii. 278 Saturn, the greater Infortune, as Mars himself is the lesser Infortune, of Astrological systems.
▪ II. † infortune, v. Obs.
[f. prec. Cf. obs. F. infortuner (Godef.), f. infortune n.]
trans. To cause misfortune to, to afflict; in Astrol. to ‘afflict’ (a planet or house) with an unfortunate ‘aspect’. So † infortuned ppl. a., unfortunate; † infortuning vbl. n.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iv. 716 (744), I, woful wrecche, and infortuned wight, And born in corsed constellacioun. c1391― Astrol. ii. §4 A fortunat assendent clepen they whan þat no wykkid planete..is in the hows of the assendent, ne þat no wikked planete haue non aspecte of enemyte vp-on the assendent... Fortherouer, they seyn þat the infortunyng of an assendent is the contrarie of thise forseide thinges. 1440J. Shirley Dethe K. James (1818) 20 Then the said Grame, seyng his Kyng and Soveran Lord ynfortuned with so much deseyse, angwesh, and sorowe, wold hafe so levyd, and done hym no more harme. |