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Definition of Pestilent

Pestilent
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.

Meaning of Pestilent from wikipedia

- break, until they subside into the calm quiescence of the concluding 'pestilential fens, faded flowerwater, stagnant pools in the waning moon.'": 79  The...
- Look up pestilence or pestilential in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pestilence may refer to: Infectious disease Pestilence, one of the Four Hor****...
- physician Gilles de Corbeil had already used atra mors to refer to a "pestilential fever" (febris pestilentialis) in his work On the Signs and Symptoms...
- appearing as horses Nuckelavee (Orcadian) – Skinless oceanic water horse with pestilent breath Nuggle (Scottish) – Mischievous male water horse Tangie (Scottish) –...
- Cattley 1838), V, p. 261: "Wily Winchester…so alienated the king's mind…by pestilent persuasions creeping into [his] ears." Elton 1951, p. 175. Loades 2012...
- the impudent falshood of cousenors, the infidelitie of atheists, the pestilent practices of Pythonists, the curiositie of figure casters, the vanitie...
- alliterative lyrics: "To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, In a pestilential prison, with a lifelong lock, Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp...
- [Antiquities of the Britannic Churches, into Which Is Inserted a History of the Pestilent Heretics Introduced against the Grace of God by Pelagius the Briton into...
- the first expedition had been to destroy "the power of France in these pestilent islands ... only to discover when it was too late, that they practically...
- was carried and many did not even drink water as it was rumoured that pestilential vapour was being poured down upon the earth from the comet." The 1910...