Pestilent
Bible Usage:
- pestilent used once.
- Bible Reference: Acts 24:5
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: No
Strongs Concordance:
- G3061 Used 1 time
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Pestilent
PEST'ILENT, adjective [Latin pestilens, from pestis, plague.]
1. Producing the plague, or other malignant, contagious disease; noxious to health and life; as a pestilent air or climate.
2. Mischievous; noxious to morals or society; destructive; in a general sense; as pestilent books.
3. Troublesome; mischievous; making disturbance; corrupt; as a pestilent fellow. Acts 24:5.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Pestilential
PESTILEN'TIAL, adjective Partaking of the nature of the plague or other infectious disease; as a pestilential fever.
1. Producing or tending to produce infectious disease; as pestilential vapors.
2. Mischievous; destructive; pernicious.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Pestilently
PEST'ILENTLY, adverb Mischievously; destructively.