Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PEST-IF'ER-OUS
PEST-IF'ER-OUS, a. [L. pestis, plague, and fero, to produce.]
- Pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious. – Arbuthnot.
- Noxious to peace, to morals or to society; mischievous; destructive.
- Troublesome; vexatious. – Shak.
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