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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pestilent  \Pes"ti*lent\,  a.  [L.  pestilens,  -entis,  fr  pestis 
  pest:  cf  F.  pestilent.] 
  Pestilential;  noxious;  pernicious;  mischievous.  ``Corrupt  and 
  pestilent.''  --Milton.  ``What  a  pestilent  knave  is  this 
  same!''  --Shak. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pestilent 
  adj  1:  exceedingly  harmful  [syn:  {baneful},  {deadly},  {pernicious}] 
  2:  likely  to  spread  and  cause  an  epidemic  disease;  "a 
  pestilential  malignancy  in  the  air"-  Jonathan  Swift; 
  "plaguelike  diseases";  "plaguey  fevers"  [syn:  {pestilential}, 
  {plaguelike},  {plaguey}] 




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