Bible Dictionaries
Pestilent
King James Dictionary
PEST'ILENT, a. L. 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
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