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mephitical

mephitical


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mephitic  \Me*phit"ic\,  Mephitical  \Me*phit"ic*al\,  a.  [L. 
  mephiticus  fr  mephitis  mephitis:  cf  F.  m['e]phitique.] 
  1.  Tending  to  destroy  life;  poisonous;  noxious;  as  mephitic 
  exhalations;  mephitic  regions. 
 
  2.  Offensive  to  the  smell;  as  mephitic  odors. 
 
  {Mephitic  air}  (Chem.),  carbon  dioxide;  --  so  called  because 
  of  its  deadly  suffocating  power.  See  {Carbonic  acid}, 
  under  {Carbonic}.