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Definition of Pestilentially
1. adv. Pestilently.
Definition of Pestilentially
1. Adverb. In a pestilential manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pestilentially
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pestilentially
Literary usage of Pestilentially
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1814)
"... or receiving into his system, the flesh of a pestilentially diseased brute
anr- mal, may certainly have disease excited thereby in his system, ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1849)
"... becomes, from time to time, epidemic—that is, widely and pestilentially prevalent.
Healthy bodies are now infected in great numbers, most obscurely, ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... and overhung with old votive gifts, yet useless, nay pestilentially unclean ;
to write whose history is less important than to forward its downfall. ..."
4. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"... (pc-lard') j nance resembling a high-crowned hat, chiefly used to break down
a harrier. PETECHIAL, (pe-te'-ke-al) a. pestilentially spotted. ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1825)
"The labourer's bread is made to depend in no degree on his good morals; however
vile a profligate he may be, and however pestilentially his conduct and ..."
6. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1851)
"... the only inhabitants of Labuan were monkeys and alligators, and that it was
nothing but a mud-flat so pestilentially unhealthy that even the Malays, ..."
7. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1851)
"... the only inhabitants of Labuan were monkeys and alligators, and that it was
nothing but a mud-flat so pestilentially unhealthy that even the Malays, ..."
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