a. (UN-1 7.)

1

1699.  Pomfret, To Another Friend, 12. Beneath the pond’rous Weight Of angry Stars, and unpropitious Fate.

2

1702.  Addison, Dial. Medals, ii. (1726), 65. Ye sue the unpropitious maid in vain.

3

1776.  Mickle, Camoen’s Lusiad, Introd. 149. In the unpropitious age of a Cromwell.

4

1847.  Helps, Friends in C., I. 39. The whole life appears to be shut up in the one unpropitious affection.

5

1875.  Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), III. 425. Sleep and exercise are unpropitious to learning.

6

  Hence Unpropitiousness.

7

1844.  W. H. Smyth, Cycle Celestial Obj., II. 6. Had this been done, every notion of stellar unpropitiousness and malevolence must have vanished.

8