infaust, a. rare.
(ɪnˈfɔːst)
[ad. L. infaust-us unlucky, perh. through F. infauste (Cotgr. 1611).]
Unlucky, unfortunate, ill-omened.
| 1658 Phillips, Infaust, or Infaustous, unlucky, unfortunate. 1668 Charleton Ephes. & Cimm. Matrons ii. 17 Dismal and infaust visions. 1708 Motteux Rabelais v. (1737) 231 O most infaust who optates there to live! 1848 Lytton Caxtons ii. vii. xxvi, It was an infaust and sinister augury. 1870 Lowell Study Wind. 303 Taurus, whose infaust aspect may be supposed to preside over the makers of bulls and blunders. |
So † inˈfausting vbl. n. (rare—1), a rendering ‘infaust’, a boding of ill luck; † inˈfaustous a. (rare—0) = infaust.
| 1622 Bacon Hen. VII 196 Hee did withall bring a kind of Malediction and Infausting upon the Marriage, as an ill Prognosticke. 1656 Blount Glossogr., Infaustous, unlucky, unfortunate, dismal. 1658 in Phillips. |