Pestilent
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster
Pestilent - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
PEST'ILENT, a. [L. pestilens, from pestis, plague.]
1. Producing the plague, or other malignant, contagious disease; noxious to health and life; as a pestilent air or climate.
2. Mischievous; noxious to morals or society; destructive; in a general sense; as pestilent books.
3. Troublesome; mischievous; making disturbance; corrupt; as a pestilent fellow. Acts 24.
Source of the article
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
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