Definition for ME-PHIT'IC, or ME-PHIT'IC-AL

ME-PHIT'IC, or ME-PHIT'IC-AL, a. [L. mephitis, an ill smell.]

Offensive to the smell; foul; poisonous; noxious; pestilential; destructive to life. Mephitic acid is carbonic acid.

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