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Webster 1913 Edition

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Adj.

[L.

nefandus

not to be spoken;

not +

fari

to speak.]

Unfit to speak of; unmentionable; impious; execrable.

[Obs.]

“Nefand adominations.”

Sheldon.

“Nefandous high treason.”

Cotton Mather.

Adj.

[L. Unlawful, or to utter.] Wicked in the extreme; abominable; atrociously sinful or villianous; detestably vile.