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Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence.

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  1. a. Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence.
  2. a. Hence: Mischievous; noxious; pernicious; morally destructive.
  3. adj. likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease
  4. 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.
  5. j:100 s likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease