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Pestilential [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Partaking of the nature of the plague or other infectious disease; as a pestilential fever.

2. Producing or tending to produce infectious disease; as pestilential vapors.

Pestilential [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence.

2. Hence: Mischievous; noxious; pernicious; morally destructive.

Pestilentially [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913