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Webster 1913 Edition


Pestiferously

Pes-tif′er-ous-ly

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adv.
In a pestiferous manner.

Definition 2024


pestiferously

pestiferously

English

Adverb

pestiferously (comparative more pestiferously, superlative most pestiferously)

  1. In a pestiferous manner.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 24
      After its first blunder-born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships, long shunned those shores as pestiferously barbarous; but the whale-ship touched there.