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Definition of Faustus

1. Noun. An alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Faustus

Literary usage of Faustus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers (1850)
"Sch. If it be so, we will have physicians, and faustus shall be cured. ... The serpent that tempted Eve may be saved, but not faustus. ..."

2. The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare by William Allan Neilson (1911)
"To patient judgments we appeal our plaud,3 Ana spi-ak for faustus in his infancy. » mene. Now is he born, his parents base of stock, In Germany, ..."

3. Early English Prose Romances: With Bibliographical and Historical Introductions by William John Thoms (1858)
"Tet no man saw faustus to cut the lilly: but when the rest of the jugglers thought to have set on their master's head, they could not: wherefore they looked ..."

4. Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century by John Ashton (1882)
"JOHN faustus. THERE is very little similarity between this history and Goethe's ... History of D. faustus" in 1589, and in an entry in the Register of the ..."

5. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1892)
"The legend of Dr. faustus had been gathered, in 1587, about recent traditions of a real person, who is said to have died in the year 1538. ..."

6. Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and by Robert Chambers (1876)
"Sch. If it be so, we will have physicians, and faustus shall be cured. ... The serpent that tempted Eve may be saved, but not faustus. ..."

7. The Confessions of S. Augustine: Book I-X. by Augustine (1886)
"And Thou wert before me, but I had departed even from myself; nor did I find myself, how much less Thee 1 CHAPTER III. Having heard faustus, the most ..."

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