nefastous

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin nefastus.

Adjective

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nefastous (comparative more nefastous, superlative most nefastous)

  1. (rare) inauspicious, disastrous, ill-omened
    • 1654, Francis Rous, Zachary Bogan, Archaelogiae Atticae libri septem: Seaven books of the Attick antiquities[1], book 4, chapter 8, page 185:
      THE time of the yeare which they deemed most lucky to Marry in (for almost every Nation has had their nefastous time and dayes) was the first Moneth of the Winter.