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Pestilent

adjective
1.
Exceedingly harmful.  Synonyms: baneful, deadly, pernicious.
2.
Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease.  Synonyms: pestiferous, pestilential, plaguey.  "Plaguey fevers"






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"Pestilent" Quotes from Famous Books



... carriage out of this pestilent throng, that I may the better hear thee," said the governor. The Escribano entered the carriage, when in a twinkling the door was closed, the coachman smacked his whip, mules, carriage, guards, and all dashed off at a thundering rate, leaving ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 • Charles H. Sylvester

... have had a pretty good idea of diphtheria. He speaks of it in connection with other throat manifestations under the heading of "crusty and pestilent ulcers of the tonsils." He divides the anginas generally into four kinds. The first consists of inflammation of the fauces with the classic symptoms, the second presents no inflammation of the mouth nor of the fauces, but is complicated by a sense of suffocation—apparently our croup. The ...
— Old-Time Makers of Medicine • James J. Walsh

... our commiseration, but also because their kindred were pleased with their sufferings; for they forgot the relation they bare to them, and at the sight of this sad accident approved of the judgment given against them; and because they looked upon the people about Dathan as pestilent men, they thought they perished as such, and ...
— The Antiquities of the Jews • Flavius Josephus

... unconscious, and not one doctor even looked at her; the sick soldiers, whom she had tended as long as she could keep on her legs, in their turn got up from their pestilent litters to lift a few drops of water in the hollow of a broken pot ...
— Dream Tales and Prose Poems • Ivan Turgenev

... and emissaries about the kingdom to arouse, and encourage, and assemble such Saxon forces as were yet to be found. In a word, they would commence a series of measures for recovering the country from the possession of its pestilent enemy, and for restoring the rightful sovereign to the throne. The development of these projects and plans, and the measures for carrying them into effect, were very much hastened by an event which suddenly occurred in the neighborhood of Ethelney, the account of which, however, ...
— King Alfred of England - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott


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