Pestilential : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Pestilential	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Pestilential
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pestilential adj likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; "a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift; "plaguey fevers" Synonym(s): pestilent, pestilential, pestiferous, plaguey
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pestilential \Pes`tilen"tial\, a. [Cf. F. pestilentiel.] 1. Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence. [bd]Sends the pestilential* vapors.[b8] --Longfellow. 2. Hence: Mischievous; noxious; pernicious; morally destructive. So pestilential, so infectious a thing is sin. --Jer. Taylor.