Category:Pestiferous

Pes*tif"er*ous, a. Etym: [l. pestiferus, pestifer; pestis pest + Ferre to bear: cf. F. pestifère.]

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. Noxious to peace, to morals, or to society; vicious; hurtful; Destructive; as, a pestiferous demagogue. Pestiferous reports of men very nobly held. Shak.