Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pestilential"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pestilential
adj : likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; "a
pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift;
"plaguelike diseases"; "plaguey fevers" [syn: {pestilent},
{plaguelike}, {plaguey}]
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