Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
mephitic .
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- adjective Alternative form of
mephitic .
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Examples
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Or, as when surrounded by a mephitical fog, I have wished to have a volley of cannon fired, to clear the incumbered atmosphere, and give me room to breathe and move.
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He, of course, meant to say, _metaphorical_, figurative, not _mephitical_ which means of a _bad smell_.
Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story Joseph Barker 1840
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Or, as when surrounded by a mephitical fog, I have wished to have a volley of cannon fired, to clear the incumbered atmosphere, and give me room to breathe and move.
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Or, as when surrounded by a mephitical fog, I have wished to have a volley of cannon fired, to clear the incumbered atmosphere, and give me room to breathe and move.
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Or, as when surrounded by a mephitical fog, I have wished to have a volley of cannon fired, to clear the incumbered atmosphere, and give me room to breathe and move.
Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft 1778
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Or, as when surrounded by a mephitical fog, I have wished to have a volley of cannon fired, to clear the incumbered atmosphere, and give me room to breathe and move.
Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft 1778
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