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Pestilential

//ˌpɛstɪˈlɛnʃi.əl// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to pestilence or plague.; Producing, spreading, promoting or infected with pestilence; causing infection. (of people, animals, places or substances)

    "1675, John Dryden, The Mistaken Husband, London: J. Magnes and R. Bentley, Act V, p. 63, What do you fear? Why do you shun me thus. […] I am not Pestilential, nor Leaprous."

  2. 2
    Of or relating to pestilence or plague.; Spreading in the manner of pestilence. (of illnesses)

    "A long sicknesse will weary friends at last; but a pestilentiall sicknes auerts them from the beginning."

  3. 3
    Of or relating to pestilence or plague.; Caused by pestilence. (of symptoms)

    "pestilential fever; pestilential sweating"

  4. 4
    Of or relating to pestilence or plague.; During which pestilence spreads. (of a period of time)

    "Now this pestilentiall Summer being well spent, upon the approach of the Winter, and decrease of the Sicknesse, the King […] drawes nearer to the City of London,"

  5. 5
    Having a harmful moral effect (especially one that is believed to spread in the manner of pestilence). figuratively

    "But as the Poisons of the deadliest kind Are to their own unhappy Coasts confin’d, […] So Presby’try and Pestilential Zeal Can only flourish in a Common-weal."

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  1. 6
    Causing irritation or annoyance. figuratively

    "There’s the pestilential nuisances who write for autographs […] They’d none of ’em be missed!"

Adjective
  1. 1
    likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease wordnet

Etymology

From Latin pestilentialis, from pestilentia.

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