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