pestilential
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Of or relating to pestilence or plague.; 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.
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Of or relating to pestilence or plague.; 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.
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Of or relating to pestilence or plague.; Caused by pestilence. (of symptoms)
— pestilential fever; pestilential sweating
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Of or relating to pestilence or plague.; 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,
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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.
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Causing irritation or annoyance.
— There’s the pestilential nuisances who write for autographs […] They’d none of ’em be missed!
词源
From Latin pestilentialis, from pestilentia.
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