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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

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;
- Example: "a Faustian pact with the Devil"


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Faustian adj 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; "a Faustian pact with the Devil"