| Pronunciation: | | `pesti'lenshul
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| Matching Terms: | | pestilentially
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| | Definition: | | [adj] likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; "a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift; "plaguelike diseases"; "plaguey fevers" |
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| | Synonyms: | | epidemic, pestilent, plaguelike, plaguey |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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