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Definition of Pestilential

Pestilential
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.

Meaning of Pestilential from wikipedia

- 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...
- 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...
- break, until they subside into the calm quiescence of the concluding 'pestilential fens, faded flowerwater, stagnant pools in the waning moon.'": 79  The...
- 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...
- 1754) was an English physician. His work, A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Method to be used to prevent it (1720), was of historic...
- 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...
- the impudent falshood of cousenors, the infidelitie of atheists, the pestilent practices of Pythonists, the curiositie of figure casters, the vanitie...
- bodies caused in the temperature of the air, as the twins were gods of pestilential diseases and sudden deaths. Roman authors applied Artemis/Diana's byname...
- Webster 3:36 8. "Pitchfork Impalement" Mazurkiewicz Barrett 3:16 9. "Pestilential Rictus" Webster Webster 4:13 10. "Drain You Empty" Rutan Rutan 4:35 Total...