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Poison :: Poison (n.) Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases..

Infect :: Infect (v. t.) To taint with morbid matter or any pestilential or noxious substance or effluvium by which disease is produced; as, to infect a lancet; to infect an apartment..

Pestilently :: Pestilently (adv.) In a pestilent manner; mischievously; destructively.

Pestilential :: Pestilential (a.) Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence.

Infectious :: Infectious (a.) Having qualities that may infect; communicable or caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever; infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices..

Lazar :: Lazar (n.) A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper.

Pestilentially :: Pestilentially (adv.) Pestilently.

Bezoar :: Bezoar (n.) A calculous concretion found in the intestines of certain ruminant animals (as the wild goat, the gazelle, and the Peruvian llama) formerly regarded as an unfailing antidote for poison, and a certain remedy for eruptive, pestilential, or putrid diseases. Hence: Any antidote or panacea..

Contagious :: Contagious (a.) Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air..

Pestilent :: Pestilent (a.) Pestilential; noxious; pernicious; mischievous.

Mephitis :: Mephitis (n.) Noxious, pestilential, or foul exhalations from decomposing substances, filth, or other source..

Pestilence :: Pestilence (n.) Fig.: That which is pestilent, noxious, or pernicious to the moral character of great numbers..

Pestilentness :: Pestilentness (n.) The quality of being pestilent.

Infection :: Infection (n.) That which infects, or causes the communicated disease; any effluvium, miasm, or pestilential matter by which an infectious disease is caused..

Pestilential :: Pestilential (a.) Hence: Mischievous; noxious; pernicious; morally destructive.

Plagueful :: Plagueful (a.) Abounding, or infecting, with plagues; pestilential; as, plagueful exhalations..

Gehenna :: Gehenna (n.) The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Testament the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell..

Pestiferous :: Pestiferous (a.) Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies..

Pesthouse :: Pesthouse (n.) A house or hospital for persons who are infected with any pestilential disease.

Pestilentious :: Pestilentious (a.) Pestilential.

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