Crossword clues for faustian
faustian
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1870, in reference to Johann Faust (c.1485-1541), German wandering astrologer and wizard, who was reputed to have sold his soul to the Devil. Fantastic tales of his life were told as early as the late 16c., and he was the hero of dramas by Marlowe and Goethe. The Latinized form of his name, faustus, means "of favorable omen."
Usage examples of "faustian".
And now of course, I saw as a vampire and could not even remember those key gradations of mortal vision in my brief Faustian youth.
Dexter had sworn off messianic attempts to save the world after the fiasco of THE TRANSFORMATION, and had developed a far keener and more jaundiced awareness of the Faustian temptation thereof in the years since.
Kaine, favoring Ralf with a perfect mad scientist grin of Faustian triumph.
For an archetypal force indeed moved through him with his cock at her throttle or his hands on the wheel, the Faustian yang to her feminine yin.
Dying Earth and Cugel the Clever stories, where sorcery is treated something like a degenerate technology, where making miracles has become a science, where magic is a hand-me-down from a lost golden age of Faustian greatness.
But Master Weir extracted a price for his aid, Faustian devil that he was.
Steppenwolf of ours has always been aware of at least the Faustian two-fold nature within him.
This Steppenwolf of ours has always been aware of at least the Faustian two-fold nature within him.
Nowhere in literature had anyone else confronted such a Faustian dilemma as directly, concretely.
Can you really believe that our Dean would neglect the supervision of this teeming, troublesome dominion, to go wandering to and fro in the world, tempting and soliciting and signing Faustian contracts?
The rare photos that had been taken of him showed an elegantly lean, dark-haired, middle-aged man with smoldering eyes and Faustian features.
The universities in those days literally swarmed with young Faustian spirits who embarked with all sails set upon the high seas of learning and academic freedom, and ran aground on all the shoals of untrammeled dilettantism.