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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Pestilenti(o)us, -ci(o)us, a. Also: peste-. [Cf. e.m.E. pestilentious (a 1586), F. pestilencieux, -tieux (15th c. in Godef.), late L. pestilentiosus. In earliest use, appar. only Sc.] Pestilentious, in the usual senses.a. Tending to produce pestilence. = Pestifer(o)us a. 1. b. Morally harmful or pernicious. = Pestifer(o)us a. 3, Pestilent a. 2.a. 1533 Bell. Livy I. 249/21.
The ȝere [was] richt pestilentius baith to burgh & land, to na les mortalite of man than beist 1590-1 R. Bruce Serm. 164.
The disease … was a pestilentious boil 1632 Lithgow Trav. vi. 256.
This contagious and pestilentious lake [sc. the Dead Sea]b. 1531 Bell. Boece I. 20.
Suld we nuris this pestilencius vennome … this bludy and tressonabill pepill 1546 Reg. Privy C. I. 63.
With that pestilencious hereseis of Luther his sect a1561 Norvell Meroure b.
He … said to Sinne, thou viperous beast infect, Bred in the poole, most pestilentious a1578 Pitsc. II. 61/23.
Mony pestelentious blasphemous … wordis … cuming … of the deuill