pestilentialadj.

Brit.

/ˌpɛstᵻˈlɛnʃl/, U.S.

/ˌpɛstəˈlɛn(t)ʃəl/

Forms: Middle English pestilenciale, Middle English–1500s pestilencial, Middle English–1500s pestilenciall, 1500s pestelenciall, 1500s pestelentiall, 1500s pestilentiale, 1500s pestilentialle, 1500s pestylenciall, 1500s–1600s pestilentiall, 1600s– pestilential, 1700s pestelential; also Scottish pre-1700 pestilenciall, pre-1700 pestilentiale, pre-1700 pestilentiall, pre-1700 1700s– pestilential, 1700s pestelentiall.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pestilentialis.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin pestilentialis of or connected with an outbreak of plague, of the nature of plague, deadly, destructive (frequently from 13th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin pestilentia pestilence n. + -ālis -al suffix¹. Compare Middle French, French pestilentiel (1534), †pestilential (1555; earlier in Middle French as pestilencial , pestilenciel (15th cent. or earlier), pestillenciel (1425 or earlier)), Old Occitan pestilencial (c1350 in a translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus), Catalan pestilencial (c1400), Spanish pestilencial (14th cent. or earlier), Portuguese pestilencial (15th cent. as pestelençial ), Italian pestilenziale (c1300). Compare pestilent adj., pestiferous adj., and slightly later pestilentious adj.With pestilential fever n. at Compounds compare earlier fever pestilential (after post-classical Latin februs pestilentialis (1363 in Chauliac); compare Middle French fievre pestillencielle (1425 or earlier)):?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 27 Be he dieted as þay be dieted þat haue febrez pestilencialez [?c1425 Paris þe feuer pestilencial; L. februm pestilentialem].a1475 Bk. Quinte Essence (1889) 23 The 16 medicyn aȝens þe feuere pestilenciale and þe maistrie to cure it.

a. Carrying, producing, or tending to produce pestilence or epidemic disease, esp. bubonic plague; unhealthy; (of a disease) infectious, epidemic.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > insalubrity > [adjective]

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unhygienic1883

unhealthy-looking1890

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 134 Chaungynge of þe eyr comeþ of nyȝnesse of careynes and of mareys, for by corrupcioun þerof eyr is infect and I-rotid and I-maad pestilencial.

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 27 (MED) Antrax..is a sharpe sikenez & a perilous, for it is of a materie mych venenous, pestilenciale & contagious.

1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 18/1 The matter beinge venomous or pestilentialle.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. vii. 119 Plagues or pestilentiall Atomes have beene conveyed in the ayre from different Regions.

1663 A. Cowley Garden v All th Uncleanness which does drown In Pestilential Clouds a populous Town.

1732 True & Faithful Narr. in J. Swift Misc. III. ii. 269 A Pestilential Malignancy in the Air, occasion'd by the Comet.

1799 C. B. Brown Arthur Mervyn I. 1 It was obvious to conclude that his disease was pestilential.

1821 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 447 Inland..the land becomes more dry, and the country free from those pestilential vapours.

1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 174 In the sultry pestilential mists of a summer day in Maremma.

1937 J. P. Marquand Late George Apley xiii. 147 The Charles River..will become a pestilential mud-hole, a breeder of disease.

1980 W. Manchester Goodbye, Darkness 94 The luxuriant, entangled undergrowth is both pestilential and sinister.

2001 Printing News (Nexis) 12 Nov. 1 As undeniably deadly as anthrax can be, it is not a killer on a pestilential scale.

b. Of the nature of, symptomatic of, or relating to pestilence or epidemic disease, esp. bubonic plague.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > plague or pestilence > [adjective]

pestilentialc1425

pestilentiousc1440

plaguey1574

plagueful1594

pestful1608

c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 81 (MED) Ane oyntment þat availeþ..to yuel carbunclez þat ar called pestilencialez.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 157 Vne charboncle, a carboncle, a sore pestylenciall.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xxvi In this sommer, the Pestilenciall plage..infected the Citie of London and the countrei round about.

1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. xxii. 400 The Figs open the Lungs,..ripen Pestilential tumours.

a1680 T. Shipman Carolina (1683) 38 A pestilential bubo plaister'd o're.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Pestilential Bubo, a Plague-sore, or Botch.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1869) III. lvi. 373 That camp was soon afflicted with a pestilential disease.

1819 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. (ed. 4) I. ii. viii. 89 The carbuncle of the plague is called symptomatic, or pestilential.

1853 E. Lord Messiah xviii. 204 The air..was the medium of the pestilential boils.

1939 Sci. Monthly Oct. 304 The extraordinary success in liberating man from the pestilential diseases.

1991 Classical Q. New Ser. 41 321 Oppian states that the fishes were impelled into the nets in their numbers either by madness resulting from a pestilential infestation..or by their own witlessness.

†c. Used against plague or pestilence. Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [adjective] > for the plague

pestilentiala1475

pestifugous1684

antipestilential1722

a1475 Bk. Quinte Essence (1889) 24 Vse in þe dayes two or þre smale pelotis pestilenciales in oure 5 essencia.

1665 G. Harvey Disc. Plague (1673) 146 Likewise Pestilential stomachick Emplasters applied to the Stomach.

d. Infected with plague or pestilence. rare.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > plague or pestilence > [adjective] > infected with

plagued1563

pestiferous1564

pestilential1568

plaguey1603

1568 G. Skeyne Breue Descriptioun Pest viii. sig. B8^v Quhasoeuir findis tham selfis pestilenciall, incontinent tak ane iniectione.

1713 Countess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 214 A Pestilential Sow, a meazeled Pork, On the foundation has been long at work.

1997 C. García Agüero Sisters i. 12 Even the most gnarled, toothless, scabrous, sclerotic, pigeon-toed, dyspeptic, pestilential men on the island believe themselves irresistible to women.

e. Of an animal, esp. an insect: harmful, destructive. Also: constituting a plague. Also in extended use. Cf. pestiferous adj. 2b.

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the world > animals > by nature > [adjective] > noxious or pestilential

vilea1525

prejudicial1602

verminly1653

vermineous1693

pestilential1697

pestiferous1731

vermine1839

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 115 Snakes..of pestilential Kind, To Sheep and Oxen, and the painful Hind.

1870 Times 7 June 7/5 Swedes and turnips are uncertain, because..they..are still at the mercy of the pestilential fly.

1901 N. Brooks First Across Continent xxiii. 305 The mosquitoes were pestilential in their numbers and venom.

1934 Times 15 Jan. 15/5 The depredations of white ants or other pestilential insects.

1977 R. Alter Defenses of Imagination 150 Eliot's vision of the stranger as an utterly alien, pestilential creature penetrating..the European city to gnaw at its foundations.

2003 Newsday (N.Y.) (Nexis) 8 July a33 (headline) New radar tracks high-flying migrations of both beneficial and pestilential insect species.

2. Morally or socially harmful; pernicious; repulsive, abhorrent.

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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > [adjective]

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scathefulc900

balefulOE

orneOE

teenfulOE

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damnous1870

wack1986

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [adjective] > harmful or injurious > harmful or pernicious

baleOE

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insalutary1836

unsalvatory1850

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. vi. sig. aiij^v Corrupted with pestilenciall auarice or ambicion.

1651 Bp. J. Taylor XXVIII Serm. iii. 34 So pestilential, so infectious a thing is sin, that it scatters the poison of its breath to all the neighbourhood.

1754 H. Jones Relief 26 The pestilential lye that taints the whole.

1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity II. ix. 187 John..pronounced it to be a pestilential..doctrine.

1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. xiii. 725 Bossuet had been taught that Mohammedanism is a pestilential heresy.

1891 Catholic World May 169 It behooves all Christians..to endeavor to root out this pestilential evil.

1904 H. James Golden Bowl II. xxxi. 127 A vulgar, indelicate, pestilential woman.

1920 Times 30 June 9/1 A result of the pestilential effects of Turkish rule.

1997 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 9 Jan. 48/1 The pestilential convergence of pickpockets, bunco men, gamblers, dope fiends, prostitutes, strippers and ruffians.

3. colloquial. In weakened use: constituting a nuisance; annoying, irritating; (as an intensifier) confounded. Cf. pestiferous adj. 3, pestilent adj. 4.

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the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [adjective] > annoying or vexatious

angeeOE

swinkfuleOE

plightlyOE

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1833 C. Dance Beulah Spa i. i. 4 Pestilential little wretches.

1885 W. S. Gilbert Mikado 9 There's the pestilential nuisances who write for autographs... They'd none of 'em be missed!

1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 22 Apr. 4/2 The ‘pestilential knocker’ has been doing his best to injure the Southeast Kootenay.

1960 Times 8 Jan. 11/4 A sneeze may still mean the onset of a pestilential cold in the head.

2002 Scotsman 22 July 10 It served the pestilential little object right.

Compounds

† Pestilential Doctor n. [after the title Royal Doctors with which those who were similarly made Doctors at the King's visit were dignified] Obsolete rare (a humorous name for) a person who was made a Doctor of Divinity at Oxford University during a time of plague, without performance of Acts.

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1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 42 If ever I took the Degree of Doctor [of Divinity], I would so do it, as that I would not be styled either a Royal, or a Pestilential Doctor; which by-names were in common speech given unto those that had taken that Degree, at either of those times.

pestilential fever n. now rare a pestilence; spec. typhus; bubonic plague.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > typhus or typhoid

putrid fever1597

pestilential fever1617

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synochus1625

Hungaric fever1661

typhus1664

military fever1736

jail distemper1745

hospital fever1750

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ship-fever1758

typhus fever1780

typhoid fever1789

gastric fever1802

dothinenteritis1826

enteric fever1833

typhoid1837

pythogenic fever1858

thanatotyphus1860

typh fever1861

enteric1872

famine-fever1876

Red River fever1878

laryngo-typhus1888

laryngo-typhoid1896

typh fever1900

paratyphoid1904

1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 111 Antimonium..Is good against pestilentiall feuors in their beginning.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Pestilential Fever..differs from the Plague, as a Species or sort from the Genus or Kind; because a Pestilence may sometimes happen without a Feaver.

1868 W. C. Richardson Yellow Fever 21 African typhus or yellow fever, (the pestilential fever of Chrisholm).

1988 J. C. Bell et al. Zoonoses 159 Plague (pest, black death, pestilential fever). A highly dangerous bacterial infection..transmitted by rat fleas.

Derivatives

† pestilentialness n. Obsolete rare the quality of being pestilential.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

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1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Pestilentialness, pestilent nature.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pestilential
释义	pestilentialadj. Brit. /ˌpɛstᵻˈlɛnʃl/, U.S. /ˌpɛstəˈlɛn(t)ʃəl/ Forms: Middle English pestilenciale, Middle English–1500s pestilencial, Middle English–1500s pestilenciall, 1500s pestelenciall, 1500s pestelentiall, 1500s pestilentiale, 1500s pestilentialle, 1500s pestylenciall, 1500s–1600s pestilentiall, 1600s– pestilential, 1700s pestelential; also Scottish pre-1700 pestilenciall, pre-1700 pestilentiale, pre-1700 pestilentiall, pre-1700 1700s– pestilential, 1700s pestelentiall. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pestilentialis. Etymology: < post-classical Latin pestilentialis of or connected with an outbreak of plague, of the nature of plague, deadly, destructive (frequently from 13th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin pestilentia pestilence n. + -ālis -al suffix¹. Compare Middle French, French pestilentiel (1534), †pestilential (1555; earlier in Middle French as pestilencial , pestilenciel (15th cent. or earlier), pestillenciel (1425 or earlier)), Old Occitan pestilencial (c1350 in a translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus), Catalan pestilencial (c1400), Spanish pestilencial (14th cent. or earlier), Portuguese pestilencial (15th cent. as pestelençial ), Italian pestilenziale (c1300). Compare pestilent adj., pestiferous adj., and slightly later pestilentious adj.With pestilential fever n. at Compounds compare earlier fever pestilential (after post-classical Latin februs pestilentialis (1363 in Chauliac); compare Middle French fievre pestillencielle (1425 or earlier)):?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 27 Be he dieted as þay be dieted þat haue febrez pestilencialez [?c1425 Paris þe feuer pestilencial; L. februm pestilentialem].a1475 Bk. Quinte Essence (1889) 23 The 16 medicyn aȝens þe feuere pestilenciale and þe maistrie to cure it. 1. a. Carrying, producing, or tending to produce pestilence or epidemic disease, esp. bubonic plague; unhealthy; (of a disease) infectious, epidemic. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > insalubrity > [adjective] evilc1000 unsete1387 pestilenta1398 pestilentiala1398 unhealfulc1400 unthendec1425 unsetyc1440 unwholesomec1455 ill1488 pestifere1490 contagious1495 infectious1534 pestiferous1538 unhealthsome1544 unkindlyc1570 deletery1576 deleterious1587 bad1589 unhealthful1598 unsound1598 unhealthy1600 sickly1604 deleterial1621 tetrous1637 insalubrious1638 unseasoned1638 cankered1645 healthless1650 insalutary1694 maliferous1727 insanous1742 unsalubrious1781 unsanitary1872 insanitary1874 devitalizing1875 antihygienic1876 unhygienic1883 unhealthy-looking1890 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 134 Chaungynge of þe eyr comeþ of nyȝnesse of careynes and of mareys, for by corrupcioun þerof eyr is infect and I-rotid and I-maad pestilencial. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 27 (MED) Antrax..is a sharpe sikenez & a perilous, for it is of a materie mych venenous, pestilenciale & contagious. 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 18/1 The matter beinge venomous or pestilentialle. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. vii. 119 Plagues or pestilentiall Atomes have beene conveyed in the ayre from different Regions. View more context for this quotation 1663 A. Cowley Garden v All th Uncleanness which does drown In Pestilential Clouds a populous Town. 1732 True & Faithful Narr. in J. Swift Misc. III. ii. 269 A Pestilential Malignancy in the Air, occasion'd by the Comet. 1799 C. B. Brown Arthur Mervyn I. 1 It was obvious to conclude that his disease was pestilential. 1821 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 447 Inland..the land becomes more dry, and the country free from those pestilential vapours. 1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 174 In the sultry pestilential mists of a summer day in Maremma. 1937 J. P. Marquand Late George Apley xiii. 147 The Charles River..will become a pestilential mud-hole, a breeder of disease. 1980 W. Manchester Goodbye, Darkness 94 The luxuriant, entangled undergrowth is both pestilential and sinister. 2001 Printing News (Nexis) 12 Nov. 1 As undeniably deadly as anthrax can be, it is not a killer on a pestilential scale. b. Of the nature of, symptomatic of, or relating to pestilence or epidemic disease, esp. bubonic plague. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > plague or pestilence > [adjective] pestilentialc1425 pestilentiousc1440 plaguey1574 plagueful1594 pestful1608 c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 81 (MED) Ane oyntment þat availeþ..to yuel carbunclez þat ar called pestilencialez. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 157 Vne charboncle, a carboncle, a sore pestylenciall. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xxvi In this sommer, the Pestilenciall plage..infected the Citie of London and the countrei round about. 1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. xxii. 400 The Figs open the Lungs,..ripen Pestilential tumours. a1680 T. Shipman Carolina (1683) 38 A pestilential bubo plaister'd o're. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Pestilential Bubo, a Plague-sore, or Botch. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1869) III. lvi. 373 That camp was soon afflicted with a pestilential disease. 1819 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. (ed. 4) I. ii. viii. 89 The carbuncle of the plague is called symptomatic, or pestilential. 1853 E. Lord Messiah xviii. 204 The air..was the medium of the pestilential boils. 1939 Sci. Monthly Oct. 304 The extraordinary success in liberating man from the pestilential diseases. 1991 Classical Q. New Ser. 41 321 Oppian states that the fishes were impelled into the nets in their numbers either by madness resulting from a pestilential infestation..or by their own witlessness. †c. Used against plague or pestilence. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [adjective] > for the plague pestilentiala1475 pestifugous1684 antipestilential1722 a1475 Bk. Quinte Essence (1889) 24 Vse in þe dayes two or þre smale pelotis pestilenciales in oure 5 essencia. 1665 G. Harvey Disc. Plague (1673) 146 Likewise Pestilential stomachick Emplasters applied to the Stomach. d. Infected with plague or pestilence. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > plague or pestilence > [adjective] > infected with plagued1563 pestiferous1564 pestilential1568 plaguey1603 1568 G. Skeyne Breue Descriptioun Pest viii. sig. B8^v Quhasoeuir findis tham selfis pestilenciall, incontinent tak ane iniectione. 1713 Countess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 214 A Pestilential Sow, a meazeled Pork, On the foundation has been long at work. 1997 C. García Agüero Sisters i. 12 Even the most gnarled, toothless, scabrous, sclerotic, pigeon-toed, dyspeptic, pestilential men on the island believe themselves irresistible to women. e. Of an animal, esp. an insect: harmful, destructive. Also: constituting a plague. Also in extended use. Cf. pestiferous adj. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by nature > [adjective] > noxious or pestilential vilea1525 prejudicial1602 verminly1653 vermineous1693 pestilential1697 pestiferous1731 vermine1839 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 115 Snakes..of pestilential Kind, To Sheep and Oxen, and the painful Hind. View more context for this quotation 1870 Times 7 June 7/5 Swedes and turnips are uncertain, because..they..are still at the mercy of the pestilential fly. 1901 N. Brooks First Across Continent xxiii. 305 The mosquitoes were pestilential in their numbers and venom. 1934 Times 15 Jan. 15/5 The depredations of white ants or other pestilential insects. 1977 R. Alter Defenses of Imagination 150 Eliot's vision of the stranger as an utterly alien, pestilential creature penetrating..the European city to gnaw at its foundations. 2003 Newsday (N.Y.) (Nexis) 8 July a33 (headline) New radar tracks high-flying migrations of both beneficial and pestilential insect species. 2. Morally or socially harmful; pernicious; repulsive, abhorrent. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > [adjective] litherc893 scathefulc900 balefulOE orneOE teenfulOE evilc1175 venomousc1290 scathela1300 prejudiciala1325 fell?c1335 harmfula1340 grievous1340 ill1340 wicked1340 noisomea1382 venomed1382 noyfulc1384 damageousc1386 mischievousc1390 unwholesomea1400 undisposingc1400 damnablec1420 prejudiciable1429 contagiousc1440 damagefulc1449 pestiferous1458 damageable1474 pestilent?a1475 nuisable1483 nocible1490 nuisible1490 nuisant1494 noxiousa1500 nocent?c1500 pestilential1531 tortious1532 pestilentious1533 nocive1538 offensivea1548 vitiating1547 dangerous1548 offending1552 dispendious1557 injurious1559 offensible1575 offensant1578 baneful1579 incommodious1579 prejudicious1579 prejudical1595 inimicous1598 damnifiable1604 taking1608 obnoxious1612 nocivousc1616 mischieving1621 nocuous1627 nocumentous1644 disserviceable1645 inimical1645 detrimentous1648 injuring1651 detrimental1656 inimicitial1656 nocumental1657 incommodous1677 fatal1681 inimic1696 nociferous1706 damnific1727 inimicable1805 violational1821 insalutary1836 detrimentary1841 wronging1845 unsalvatory1850 damaging1856 damnous1870 wack1986 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [adjective] > harmful or injurious > harmful or pernicious baleOE balefulc1175 venomousc1290 contagiousc1440 pestiferous1458 pestilent?a1475 perniciousc1475 pestilential1531 pestilentious1533 plaguey1574 deleterious1630 unedifying1641 perniciable1656 inedifying1659 unimproving1747 insalutary1836 unsalvatory1850 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. vi. sig. aiij^v Corrupted with pestilenciall auarice or ambicion. 1651 Bp. J. Taylor XXVIII Serm. iii. 34 So pestilential, so infectious a thing is sin, that it scatters the poison of its breath to all the neighbourhood. 1754 H. Jones Relief 26 The pestilential lye that taints the whole. 1782 J. Priestley Hist. Corruptions Christianity II. ix. 187 John..pronounced it to be a pestilential..doctrine. 1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. xiii. 725 Bossuet had been taught that Mohammedanism is a pestilential heresy. 1891 Catholic World May 169 It behooves all Christians..to endeavor to root out this pestilential evil. 1904 H. James Golden Bowl II. xxxi. 127 A vulgar, indelicate, pestilential woman. 1920 Times 30 June 9/1 A result of the pestilential effects of Turkish rule. 1997 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 9 Jan. 48/1 The pestilential convergence of pickpockets, bunco men, gamblers, dope fiends, prostitutes, strippers and ruffians. 3. colloquial. In weakened use: constituting a nuisance; annoying, irritating; (as an intensifier) confounded. Cf. pestiferous adj. 3, pestilent adj. 4. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [adjective] > annoying or vexatious angeeOE swinkfuleOE plightlyOE teenfulOE contrariousc1320 drefa1325 troublinga1325 despitousa1340 thornya1340 discomfortablec1350 troublablec1374 noyousa1382 noyfulc1384 diseasy1387 angrya1393 painful1395 hackinga1400 annoying?c1400 annoyousc1400 cumbrousc1400 teenc1400 annoyfulc1405 sputousc1420 diseasefula1425 molest?a1425 noying?a1425 noisomea1450 grievingc1450 tedious?1454 troublous1463 noisantc1475 displeasant1481 strouble1488 nuisant1494 noyanta1500 irksome1513 sturting1513 molestious1524 vexatious1534 cumbersome1535 uncommodious1541 spiteful1548 vexing?1548 incommodious1551 molestous1555 diseasing1558 grating1563 pestilent1565 sturtsome1570 molestuousa1572 troublesome1573 murrain1575 discommodable1579 galling1583 spiny1586 unsupportable1586 troubleful1588 plaguey1594 distressingc1595 molestful1596 molesting1598 vexful1598 fretful1603 briery1604 bemadding1608 mortifying1611 tiry1611 distressfula1616 irking1629 angersome1649 disobliging1652 discomforting1654 incomfortable1655 incommode1672 ruffling1680 unconvenient1683 pestifying1716 trying1718 offending1726 bothering1765 pesky1775 weary1785 sturty1788 unaccommodating1790 tiresome1798 werriting1808 bothersome1817 plaguesome1828 pestilential1833 fretsome1834 languorous1834 pesty1834 pestersome1843 nettlesome1845 miserable1850 niggling1854 distempering1855 be-maddeninga1861 nattery1873 nagging1883 pestiferous1890 trouble-giving1893 maddening1896 molestive1905 nuisancy1906 balls-aching?1912 nuisance1922 nattering1949 noodgy1969 dickheaded1991 dickish1991 cockish1996 1833 C. Dance Beulah Spa i. i. 4 Pestilential little wretches. 1885 W. S. Gilbert Mikado 9 There's the pestilential nuisances who write for autographs... They'd none of 'em be missed! 1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 22 Apr. 4/2 The ‘pestilential knocker’ has been doing his best to injure the Southeast Kootenay. 1960 Times 8 Jan. 11/4 A sneeze may still mean the onset of a pestilential cold in the head. 2002 Scotsman 22 July 10 It served the pestilential little object right. Compounds † Pestilential Doctor n. [after the title Royal Doctors with which those who were similarly made Doctors at the King's visit were dignified] Obsolete rare (a humorous name for) a person who was made a Doctor of Divinity at Oxford University during a time of plague, without performance of Acts. ΚΠ 1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 42 If ever I took the Degree of Doctor [of Divinity], I would so do it, as that I would not be styled either a Royal, or a Pestilential Doctor; which by-names were in common speech given unto those that had taken that Degree, at either of those times. pestilential fever n. now rare a pestilence; spec. typhus; bubonic plague. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > typhus or typhoid putrid fever1597 pestilential fever1617 tabardillo1624 synochus1625 Hungaric fever1661 typhus1664 military fever1736 jail distemper1745 hospital fever1750 jail-fever1754 ship-fever1758 typhus fever1780 typhoid fever1789 gastric fever1802 dothinenteritis1826 enteric fever1833 typhoid1837 pythogenic fever1858 thanatotyphus1860 typh fever1861 enteric1872 famine-fever1876 Red River fever1878 laryngo-typhus1888 laryngo-typhoid1896 typh fever1900 paratyphoid1904 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 111 Antimonium..Is good against pestilentiall feuors in their beginning. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Pestilential Fever..differs from the Plague, as a Species or sort from the Genus or Kind; because a Pestilence may sometimes happen without a Feaver. 1868 W. C. Richardson Yellow Fever 21 African typhus or yellow fever, (the pestilential fever of Chrisholm). 1988 J. C. Bell et al. Zoonoses 159 Plague (pest, black death, pestilential fever). A highly dangerous bacterial infection..transmitted by rat fleas. Derivatives † pestilentialness n. Obsolete rare the quality of being pestilential.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Pestilentialness, pestilent nature. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1398
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