infaustadj.

/ɪnˈfɔːst/

Etymology: < Latin infaustus unlucky, perhaps through French infauste (Cotgrave 1611).

rare.

Unlucky, unfortunate, ill-omened.

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the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [adjective] > inauspicious

perilousc1390

unlucky1519

unchancy1533

unhappy1533

infortunate1548

sinistrous?c1550

luckless1584

dismal1588

ominous1589

fatal1590

bad-bodinga1592

disastrous1598

inauspicious1599

black1604

naught1620

inauspicate1632

infaustous1656

infaust1658

ill-omened1685

black boding1743

wanchancy1768

oracular1820

inominous1832

widdershins1926

1658 in E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Infaust, or Infaustous, unlucky, unfortunate.

1668 P. M. Cimmerian Matron 17 in W. Charleton Ephesian & Cimmerian Matrons Dismal and infaust visions.

1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) v. 231 O most infaust who optates there to live!

1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtons I. vii. i. 294 It was an infaust and sinister augury.

1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 303 Taurus, whose infaust aspect may be supposed to preside over the makers of bulls and blunders.

Derivatives

† inˈfausting n. Obsolete rare a rendering ‘infaust’, a boding of ill luck.

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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > premonition, presentiment > [noun] > instance of > of evil

whatec1000

foreboding1603

infausting1622

suggestion1748

misboding1825

1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 196 Hee did withall bring a kind of Malediction and Infausting upon the Marriage, as an ill Prognosticke.

† inˈfaustous adj. Obsolete rare = infaust adj.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

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