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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

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- In Fields of Pestilent Grief is a studio album by the Norwegian funeral doom metal band Funeral. It was their first full-length studio album since their...
- 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...
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- 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...
- [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...
- retribution and rehabilitation, the prison soon became an overcrowded and pestilent place, subject to frequent riots by the prisoners which damaged the buildings...
- break, until they subside into the calm quiescence of the concluding 'pestilential fens, faded flowerwater, stagnant pools in the waning moon.'": 79  The...
- with wheat. The Caribbean port of Veracruz was small, with its hot, pestilential climate not a draw for permanent settlers: its po****tion never topped...
- condemned Bahá’u’lláh and his family to perpetual imprisonment in the pestilential penal colony of Acre; banished with them were most Bahá’ís in Adrianople...