infaust
English
Etymology
From Latin īnfaustus, from in- (“not”) + faustus (“fortunate, lucky”).
Adjective
infaust (comparative more infaust, superlative most infaust)
- (archaic) unlucky, unfortunate, ill-omened; unpropitious; sinister
- 1849, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Caxtons: A Family Picture:
- Nevertheless, it was an infaust and sinister augury for Austin Caxton[.]
- 1989, François Rabelais, “An Epistle by Pantagruel's Limosin”, in The Complete Works of Doctor François Rabelais:
- While we, alas! must still obambulate, Sequacious of the court and courtier's fate : O most infaust who optates there to live! An aulic life no solid joys can give.
- 1849, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Caxtons: A Family Picture:
References
“infaust”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
Anagrams
- Faustin, faunist, fiaunts, fustian