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faustus

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Faustus ( or occasionally ) is a Latin praenomen , or personal name . It was never particularly common at Rome, but may have been used more frequently in the countryside. The feminine form is Fausta . The name was not usually abbreviated, but is occasionally ...

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Faust \Faust\, or Faustus \Faustus\ (f[^a]s"tus)., Doctor Johann Faust, a person born at Kundling (Knittlingen), W["u]rtemberg, or at Roda, near Weimar, and said to have died in 1588. He was a man of licentious character, a magician, astrologer, and soothsayer, ...

Usage examples of faustus.

Therefore, sweet Faustus, think with what unquiet life, anger, strife, and debate thou shalt live in when thou takest a wife.

We have said enough about this matter against the calumnies of Faustus the Manichaean.

Caesar pardoned Pompeia, the wife of Faustus, with her children, and permitted her the free enjoyment of all her effects.

I refer, of course, to the Tragical History of Doctor Faustus as enacted by the players of the Earl of Nottingham and with the nonpareil Edward Alleyn in the title role.