01 a. Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies.
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Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies.
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Noxious to peace, to morals, or to society; vicious; hurtful; destructive; as, a pestiferous demagogue.“Pestiferous reports of men very nobly held.” — Shak.