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Definition of Pestiferous

Pestiferous
Pestiferous Pes*tif"er*ous, a. [L. pestiferus, pestifer; pestis pest + ferre to bear: cf. F. pestif[`e]re.] 1. Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies. ``Poor, pestiferous creatures begging alms.' --Evelyn. ``Unwholesome and pestiferous occupations.' --Burke. 2. Noxious to peace, to morals, or to society; vicious; hurtful; destructive; as, a pestiferous demagogue. Pestiferous reports of men very nobly held. --Shak.

Meaning of Pestiferous from wikipedia

- removed in order to preserve the common good. But the life of certain pestiferous men is an impediment to the common good which is the concord of human...
- Are They Now?. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 74. ISBN 978-1-63076-114-1. "Pestiferous". Courier-Journal. Louisville. 5 April 1964. p. 101. LoBrutto, Vincent...
- look upon Indians not taxed as being much less dangerous and much less pestiferous to a society than I look upon Gypsies. I do not know how my honorable...
- insecticide susceptibility and detoxification enzyme activities among pestiferous blattodea". Comp Infibous Biochem Physiol C Pharmacol Toxicol Endocrinol...
- Retrieved 21 July 2016. Mulla, Mir S.; Chansang, Uruyakorn (2007). "Pestiferous nature, resting sites, aggregation, and host-s****ing behavior of the...
- intelligent machines methodically working to exterminate a species of pestiferous vermin that calls itself humanity." In 2001, film director Jan De Bont...
- production, and not the process of production for the laborer, that fact is a pestiferous source of corruption and slavery." (Capital, Vol. I, Chapter 13). Marxism...
- Che Salmah MD. (March 2009). "Laboratory and Field Investigations of Pestiferous Chironomidae (Diptera) in Some Man-Made Wetlands in Central Florida,...
- hysterical phenomena that seize whole communities of people, like a pestiferous epidemic, from time to time, arise from spiritual laziness and intellectual...
- established by Censorinus was badly situated and by early summer was so pestiferous that it was moved to a healthier location. This was not as defensible...