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pestilential |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pestilential \Pes`ti*len"tial\, a. [Cf. F. pestilentiel.] 1. Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence. ``Sends the pestilential vapors.'' --Longfellow. 2. Hence: Mischievous; noxious; pernicious; morally destructive. So pestilential, so infectious a thing is sin. --Jer. Taylor. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: pestilential adj : likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; "a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift; "plaguelike diseases"; "plaguey fevers" [syn: {pestilent}, {plaguelike}, {plaguey}]
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