because he hath vouchsafed to preserue our nation from such fountains, from serpents and venemous wormes, & from al other pestiferous & contagious creatures.
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Pestiferous
//ˌpɛsˈtɪfəɹəs//
Synonyms for "pestiferous" (109 found)
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7 entriesTranslations
21 translations across 9 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- досаден adj (annoying, vexatious)
- заразен adj (containing organisms that cause contagious diseases)
- тормозещ adj (annoying, vexatious)
French
1 entries- pestilentiel adj (containing organisms that cause contagious diseases)
Icelandic
2 entries- sóttnæmur adj (containing organisms that cause contagious diseases)
- óheilnæmur adj (containing organisms that cause contagious diseases)
Irish
1 entries- aicídeach adj (containing organisms that cause contagious diseases)
Italian
2 entries- pestifero adj (annoying, vexatious)
- pestilenziale adj (annoying, vexatious)
Latin
1 entries- pestiferus adj (containing organisms that cause contagious diseases)
Romanian
4 entries- pestifer adj (containing organisms that cause contagious diseases)
- pestilențial adj (containing organisms that cause contagious diseases)
- pisălog adj (annoying, vexatious)
- plictisitor adj (annoying, vexatious)
Russian
2 entries- заразный adj (containing organisms that cause contagious diseases)
- надое́дливый adj (annoying, vexatious)
Spanish
4 entries- pernicioso adj (annoying, vexatious)
- pesado adj (annoying, vexatious)
- pestífero adj (containing organisms that cause contagious diseases)
- pestífero adj (annoying, vexatious)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
In these solemn moments man discovers the germ of those vices, which like the Java tree shed a pestiferous vapour around--death is in the shade!
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and bears the body of our dear brother here departed to a hemmed-in churchyard, pestiferous and obscene, whence malignant diseases are communicated to the bodies of our dear brothers and sisters who have not departed...
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Wherever there is a vacant space the authorities have allowed refugees to put up pestiferous shacks, which now flank in unbroken lines the country roads leading into Rangoon, the railway tracks, and the shores of the Royal Lake.
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