Definition of Pestilential. Meaning of Pestilential. Synonyms of Pestilential

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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...
- 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...
- break, until they subside into the calm quiescence of the concluding 'pestilential fens, faded flowerwater, stagnant pools in the waning moon.'": 79  The...
- 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...
- the impudent falshood of cousenors, the infidelitie of atheists, the pestilent practices of Pythonists, the curiositie of figure casters, the vanitie...
- kingdom or to be maintained as a province of Rome has been blamed on the pestilential climate of the Phasis Valley, a situation remarked upon by travelers...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...