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† pestilentious, a. Obs.
[ad. F. pestilencieux, † -tieux (15th c. in Godef.) = It. pestilenzioso, † -tioso (Florio), ad. post-cl. L. pestilentiōsus, f. pestilentia pestilence: see -ous.]
1. = pestilential a. 1, 2.
1533Bellenden Livy iii. iii. (S.T.S.) I. 249 Þe ȝere [was] richt pestilentius baith to burgh & land, to na less mortalite of man þan beist. 1589R. Bruce Serm. (1843) 164 The disease..was a pestilentious boil. 1632Lithgow Trav. vi. 256 This contagious and pestilentious Lake [the Dead Sea]. 1694Lond. Gaz. No. 2948/2 The Pestilentious Distemper which had for a long while reigned in that Island. 1745tr. Columella's Husb. i. iv, The owner of a pestilentious, though very fertile and fat land.
2. Noxious, pernicious; = pestilential a. 3.
1533Bellenden Livy i. xxii. (S.T.S.) I. 125 Tarquinius sixtus..come armit on me þis last nycht, And has reft fra me..all my joy and solace to his pestilentius plesser. 1546Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 63 The pestilencious hereseis of Luther. a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. (1622) 332 Such a pestilentious influence poysoned the time of my natiuitie. 1689tr. Buchanan's De Jure Regni 45 Nothing..is given us of God..more Pestilentious than a wicked King. 1748H. Brooke Last Speech J. Good Poems & Plays 1789 II. 117 In the days of old there were Giants.., people of magnitude,..of prodigious deeds, and of pestilentious atchievements.
Hence † pestiˈlentiousness.
1748tr. Vegetius' Distemp. Horses 25 The Pestilentiousness of the Disease. |