Word Meanings - PESTILENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pestilential; noxious; pernicious; mischievous. "Corrupt and pestilent." Milton. "What a pestilent knave is this same!" Shak.

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• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• KNAVESS
  A knavish woman. Carlyle.
• PESTILENT
  Pestilential; noxious; pernicious; mischievous. "Corrupt and pestilent." Milton. "What a pestilent knave is this same!" Shak.
• KNAVERY
  Roguish or mischievous tricks. Shak. (more info) 1. The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action. This is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's name. Shak. 2. pl.
• CORRUPTION
  1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject
• CORRUPTIVE
  Having the quality of taining or vitiating; tending to produce corruption. It should be endued with some corruptive quality for so speedy a dissolution of the meat. Ray.
• NOXIOUS
  1. Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples. Too frequent an appearance in places of public
• PESTILENTIALLY
  Pestilently.
• CORRUPTNESS
  The quality of being corrupt.
• CORRUPTIBILITY
  The quality of being corruptible; the possibility or liability of being corrupted; corruptibleness. Burke.
• CORRUPTINGLY
  In a manner that corrupts.
• PESTILENTIAL
  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.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• CORRUPTLY
  In a corrupt manner; by means of corruption or corrupting influences; wronfully.
• MISCHIEVOUS
  Causing mischief; harmful; hurtful; -- now often applied where the evil is done carelessly or in sport; as, a mischievous child. "Most mischievous foul sin." Shak. This false, wily, doubling disposition is intolerably mischievous to society. South.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• CORRUPT
  1. Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound. Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them. Knolles. 2. Changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated;
• PESTILENTLY
  In a pestilent manner; mischievously; destructively. "Above all measure pestilently noisome." Dr. H. More.
• KNAVE
  AS. cnapa boy, youth, D. kna, G. knabe boy, knappe esquire, Icel. 1. A boy; especially, a boy servant. Wyclif. Chaucer. O murderous slumber, Lay'st thou thy leaden mace upon my boy That plays thee music Gentle knave, good night. Shak. 2. Any
• OBNOXIOUS
  1. Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to. The writings of lawyers, which are tied obnoxious to their particular laws. Bacon. Esteeming it more honorable to live on the public than to be obnoxious to any private purse. Milton.
• UNCORRUPTIBLE
  Incorruptible. "The glory of the uncorruptible God." Rom. i.
• INCORRUPTION
  The condition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. 1 Cor. xv.
• INCORRUPTED
  Uncorrupted. Breathed into their incorrupted breasts. Sir J. Davies.
• INNOXIOUS
  1. Free from hurtful qualities or effects; harmless. "Innoxious flames." Sir K. Digby. 2. Free from crime; pure; innocent. Pope. -- In*nox`ious*ly, adv. -- In*nox"ious*ness, n.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• INCORRUPTIBLE
  1. Not corruptible; incapable of corruption, decay, or dissolution; as, gold is incorruptible. Our bodies shall be changed into incorruptible and immortal substances. Wake. 2. Incapable of being bribed or morally corrupted; inflexibly just and
• INCORRUPTIBLENESS
  The quality or state of being incorruptible. Boyle.
• INCORRUPTLY
  Without corruption. To demean themselves incorruptly. Milton.