rare. [a. L. fastīdium; see FASTIDIE.] Disgust; ‘ennui.’
a. 1734. North, Lives (1826), I. 159. The fastidium, upon this occasion contracted, and his increase of business, which gave him little time to think of any thing else, diverted his mind from undertaking any more such projects; and so he went on his way.
1885. Mrs. H. Ward, trans. Amiel’s Jrnl. (1889), 277. How is fastidium to be avoided?
