pestilential

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Producing, spreading, promoting or infected with pestilence; causing infection. (of people, animals, places or substances)

   “1675, John Dryden, The Mistaken Husband, London: J. Magnes and R. Bentley, Act V, p. 63, What do you fear? Why do you shun me thus. […] I am not Pestilential, nor Leaprous.”

2. sıfat Spreading in the manner of pestilence. (of illnesses)

   “A long sicknesse will weary friends at last; but a pestilentiall sicknes auerts them from the beginning.”

3. sıfat Caused by pestilence. (of symptoms)

   “pestilential fever; pestilential sweating”

4. sıfat During which pestilence spreads. (of a period of time)

   “Now this pestilentiall Summer being well spent, upon the approach of the Winter, and decrease of the Sicknesse, the King […] drawes nearer to the City of London,”

5. sıfat Having a harmful moral effect (especially one that is believed to spread in the manner of pestilence).

   “But as the Poisons of the deadliest kind Are to their own unhappy Coasts confin’d, […] So Presby’try and Pestilential Zeal Can only flourish in a Common-weal.”

6. sıfat Causing irritation or annoyance.

   “There’s the pestilential nuisances who write for autographs […] They’d none of ’em be missed!”