PESTIFEROUS

pestiferous. pestiferous, contagious, hurtfull

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pestiferous. Pestiferous, a. destructive, deadly, malignant

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Pes‐tif″er‐ous (?), a. [[L. pestiferus, pestifer; pestis pest + ferre to bear: cf. F. pestifère.]] 1. 1. Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies. “Poor, pestiferous creatures begging alms.” Evelyn. “Unwholesome and pestiferous occupations.” Burke.
2. 2. Noxious to peace, to morals, or to society; vicious; hurtful; destructive; as, a pestiferous demagogue.
Pestiferous reports of men very nobly held. Shak.