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Webster 1913 Edition

Pestilential

Pesˊti-len′tial

,
Adj.
[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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pestilential

PESTILEN'TIAL

,
Adj.
Partaking of the nature of the plague or other infectious disease; as a pestilential fever.
1.
Producing or tending to produce infectious disease; as pestilential vapors.
2.
Mischievous; destructive; pernicious.

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