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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

pestiferus

pestifer

;

pestis

pest +

ferre

to bear: cf. F.

pestifère

Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious;

as,

pestiferous

bodies

“Poor, pestiferous creatures begging alms.”

Evelyn.

“Unwholesome and pestiferous occupations.”

Burke.

Noxious to peace, to morals, or to society; vicious; hurtful; destructive;

as, a

pestiferous

demagogue

Pestiferous

reports of men very nobly held.

Shakespeare

Adj.

[L. pestis, plague, and fero, to produce.]

Pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious.

Noxious to peace, to morals or to society; mischievous; destructive.

Troublesome; vexatious.