'Pestilential' definitions:
Definition of 'pestilential'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; "a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift; "plaguey fevers" [syn: pestilent, pestilential, pestiferous, plaguey]
Definition of 'Pestilential'
From: GCIDE
- Pestilential \Pes`ti*len"tial\, a. [Cf. F. pestilentiel.]
- 1. Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence. "Sends the pestilential vapors." --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence: Mischievous; noxious; pernicious; morally destructive. [1913 Webster]
- So pestilential, so infectious a thing is sin. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]