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Faustian   /fˈɔstʃən/   Listen
Faustian

adjective
1.
Pertaining to or resembling or befitting Faust or Faustus especially in insatiably striving for worldly knowledge and power even at the price of spiritual values.





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"Faustian" Quotes from Famous Books



... wish not to visit the pistrinum. You have set Curius' mouth watering, so that he will be sped with longing, before you have helped Fulvia and your mistress. Fill up, you knaves, fill up; nay! not the Chian now; the Falernian from the Faustian hills, or the Caecuban? Which shall ...
— The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2) • Henry William Herbert


Words linked to "Faustian" :   Faust


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