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Webster 1913 Edition


Infausting

In-faust′ing

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Noun.
The act of making unlucky; misfortune; bad luck.
[Obs.]
Bacon.

Webster 1828 Edition


Infausting

INFAUST'ING

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Noun.
[L. infaustus.] The act of making unlucky.

Definition 2024


infausting

infausting

English

Noun

infausting (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, nonce word) The act of making unlucky; misfortune.
    • 1622, Francis Bacon, Bacon's History of the Reign of King Henry VII, Cambridge University Press (1902), page 179:
      He did withal bring a kind of malediction and infausting upon the marriage, as an ill prognostic...