Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PEST-I-LEN'TIAL
PEST-I-LEN'TIAL, a.
- Partaking of the nature of the plague or other infectious disease; as, a pestilential fever.
- Producing or tending to produce infectious disease; as, pestilential vapors.
- Mischievous; destructive; pernicious. – South.
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