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PESTILENT Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1. destructive of life : deadly 2. injuring or endangering society : pernicious 3. causing displeasure or annoyance 4. infectious, contagious
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Pestilent - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms - Vocabulary.com
When something is pestilent, it's contagious and often deadly. At one time, polio was considered to be a pestilent disease in North America.
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PESTILENT Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
destructive to life; deadly; poisonous. injurious to peace, morals, etc.; pernicious. troublesome, annoying, or mischievous. pestilent. / ˈpɛstɪlənt / ...
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pestilently
pestilently, adv. (ˈpɛstɪləntlɪ) [f. pestilent a. + -ly2.] In a pestilent manner. 1. Perniciously, noxiously, mischievously.1528 Tindale Obed. Chr. Man Wks. (1573) 128 Would he spare..to alleage, and to wrest other doctors pestilently, which feareth not for to iugle wyth the holy scripture? 1563–83 ...
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pestilently - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From pestilent + -ly. Adverb. edit. pestilently (comparative more pestilently, superlative most pestilently). In a pestilent manner.
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PESTILENT definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
1. likely to cause death; deadly 2. Rare contagious; pestilential 3. dangerous to the security and welfare of society; pernicious
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plaguily
plaguily, adv. (ˈpleɪgɪlɪ) [f. next + -ly2.] In a plaguy manner; colloq. vexatiously, ‘pestilently’, confoundedly, exceedingly.a 1586 Sidney Arcadia iii. (1622) 265 Assure thy selfe, most wicked woman (that hast so plaguyly a corrupted minde, as thou canst not keepe thy sicknesse to thy selfe, but m...
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pestilently, adv. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
The earliest known use of the adverb pestilently is in the early 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for pestilently is from 1528, in the writing of William ...
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PESTILENT | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
annoying or causing trouble: Some hunters insist that a coyote is a pestilent scourge that will wipe out the deer population. Very few people live in these ...
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KJV Dictionary Definition: pestilent - AV1611.com
1. Producing the plague, or other malignant, contagious disease; noxious to health and life; as a pestilent air or climate. 2. Mischievous; noxious to morals ...
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pestilently - definition and meaning - Wordnik
from The Century Dictionary. In a pestilent manner; mischievously; perniciously; noxiously. Excessively; intolerably.
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pestilent - American Heritage Dictionary Entry
1. a. Causing or likely to cause epidemic disease: a pestilent swamp. b. Infectious or epidemic: a pestilent disease. c. Archaic Tending to cause death; deadly.
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pestilent
▪ I. pestilent, a. (n., adv.) (ˈpɛstɪlənt) [ad. L. pestilens, -ent-em, a deriv. of participial form from pestis plague, or pestilis of the nature of a plague; also pestilentus: cf. gracilentus, macilentus.] 1. Destructive to life; fatal; deadly; poisonous.1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) III. 293 Socrates...
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fuligo
‖ fuligo (fjuːˈlaɪgəʊ) [L.] Soot. (See also quot. 1727.)1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. xii. 335 Thus Camphire of a white substance, by its fuligo affordeth a deepe black. 1693 Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. Advt. to Curious 4 Wax, or Oyl-Olive (for such it ought to be, to avoid the intollerable...
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