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Definition of Infaust
1. a. Not favorable; unlucky; unpropitious; sinister.
Definition of Infaust
1. Adjective. (obsolete) unlucky; unpropitious; sinister ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Infaust
1. unlucky [adj] - See also: unlucky
Medical Definition of Infaust
1. Unfavourable. Origin: L. Infaustus = unlucky This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Infaust
Literary usage of Infaust
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1899)
"... word infaust to poets!—will I fear, far outweigh them. A few passages have
been omitted, whose space is sufficiently well supplied by asterisks. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1848)
"I will not say that he might not hunger for praise, but I am quite sure that he
did not care a button foi pudding. Nevertheless, it was an infaust and ..."
3. My Study Windows by James Russell Lowell (1876)
"Some malign constellation (Taurus, perhaps, whose infaust aspect may be supposed
to preside over the makers of bulls and blunders) seems to have been in ..."
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