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pestilent |
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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