pestilential

In comments on his table, Potter says that he has doubtless included mention of many plagues which, although described under that name, are probably a dissimilar disease, writers having applied the terms pestilential and pestilent in a generic sense to diseases specifically different.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

It is the spirit which incarcerates unfortunate prisoners of honorable warfare in pestilential holds, stifles them with thirst, starvation, diseased meats, if not slow poisons, and plants tons of gunpowder under them that, in case of inability to retain them, they might be blown to atoms at the mere touch of a match.

The Assassinated President 1865

18.3 In comments on his table, Potter says that he has doubtless included mention of many plagues which, although described under that name, are probably a dissimilar disease, writers having applied the terms pestilential and pestilent in a generic sense to diseases specifically different.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

Like many other men, North or South, they were brave enough when it came to gunpowder, but were quickly vanquished at the idea of pestilential disease.

Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War Edward Robins 1902

At every fair-time "a kind of pestilential fever" raged, so that at least 400 folk were buried there annually during the five or six weeks of the market.

On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922

Eck's comments on the "pestilential" errors of Wiclif and Hus condemned by the Council of Constance was met by the reply, that, so far as the position of the Hussites was concerned, there were among them many who were "very Christian and evangelical".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

Certain it is, that after he had left the island called La Mona, and when he was approaching the island of San Juan, a drowsiness, which Las Casas calls "pestilential," but which might reasonably be attributed to the privations, cares, and anxieties which the admiral had now undergone for many months, seized upon him, and entirely deprived him for a time of the use of his senses.

The Life of Columbus Arthur Helps 1844

If they want to know their first task, as coaching motivator and quarterback leader, it's to eradicate pestilential losses like this one.

For the NFL's worst, it always gets better when they play the Redskins Thomas Boswell 2010

There is a law Section 1170 that states that the Board of Health and Sanitation of the City of New York may remove from the public arena any person sick with any contagious, pestilential, or infectious disease.

Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011

What was remarkable was that the Allies having spent nearly six years fighting to destroy this pestilential horror in the heart of Europe, then turned round and assisted the German people to rebuild their society and their prosperity.

Athens backs villagers' fight for German compensation over 1944 SS massacre 2011