Category:Pestilential

Pes`ti*len"tial, a. Etym: [cf. F. pestilentiel.]

1. Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence. "sends the Pestilential vapors." Longfellow.

2. Hence: mischievous; noxious; pernicious; morally destructive. So pestilential, so infectious a thing is sin. Jer. Taylor.