pestilential

suomi-englanti sanakirja

pestilential englannista suomeksi

1. tartuntaa levittävä

pestilential englanniksi

1. Of or relating to pestilence or plague.

2. Producing, spreading, promoting or infected with pestilence; causing infection. (q)

(syn)

3. 1675, (w), ''(w),'' London: J. Magnes and R. Bentley, Act(nbs)V, p.(nbs)63,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A36653.0001.001

What do you fear? Why do you shun me thus. (..) I am not Pestilential, nor Leaprous.

4. (RQ:Thomson Spring) the Winter keenPour’d out his Waste of Snows, and Summer shotHis pestilential Heats:

5. {{quote-book|en|year=1789|author=Olaudah Equiano|title=The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano|location=London|volume=1|chapter=2|pages=78–79|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004837188.0001.001

6. 1941, J. Chapman Miske, “(w)” in (w), ''The Tomb and Other Tales,'' New York: Ballantine, 1970, p.(nbs)187,https://archive.org/details/tombothertales00love

Casting my eyes about, I beheld no living object; but was sensible of a very peculiar stirring far below me, amongst the whispering rushes of the pestilential swamp I had lately quitted.

7. Spreading in the manner of pestilence. (q)

8. {{quote-book|en|year=1624|author=John Donne|title=Devotions upon Emergent Occasions|location=London|publisher=Thomas Jones|chapter=5. Meditation|page=95|url=https://archive.org/details/devotionsvponem00donngoog/page/n99/mode/1up

9. {{quote-book|en|year=1783|author=Edward Gibbon|title=The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire|location=London|publisher=W. Strahan and T. Cadell|volume=5|chapter=31|page=292|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004848826.0001.005

10. Caused by pestilence. (q)

(ux)

11. {{quote-book|en|year=1752|author=George Berkeley|chapter=An Essay towards Preventing the Ruin of Great-Britain|title=A Miscellany, Containing Several Tracts on Various Subjects|location=London|publisher=J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper|page=40|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004805982.0001.000

12. During which pestilence spreads. (q)

13. {{quote-book|en|year=1651|author=John Milton|title=The Life and Reigne of King Charls|location=London|publisher=W. Reybold|page=9|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50910.0001.001

14. {{quote-book|en|year=1665|author=John Quarles|title=The Citizens Flight with Their Re-call|location=London|page=4|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56848.0001.001

15. Having a harmful moral effect (especially one that is believed to spread in the manner of pestilence).

16. {{quote-book|en|year=1687|author=John Dryden|title=The Hind and the Panther|location=London|publisher=Jacob Tonson|edition=2nd|section=Part 1, p. 14|url=https://archive.org/details/hindandpanther00dryduoft/page/14/mode/2up

17. (quote-text)|location=New Haven, CT|publisher=Yale University Press|section=Part 2, p. 47|url=https://archive.org/details/inbluebeardscast00steirich

18. Causing irritation or annoyance.

19. (RQ:Gilbert and Sullivan Mikado) They’d none of ’em be missed!

20. 1899, (w), ''(w)'' in ''(w),'' Volume(nbs)165, March 1899, Chapter(nbs)2, p.(nbs)480,https://archive.org/details/1899heartofdarknessconradfebmaraprilblackwoodsmagazine/page/n30/mode/1up

(..) a species of wandering trader—a pestilential fellow, snapping ivory from the natives.

21. {{quote-text|en|year=1966|author=Robert A. Heinlein|title=The Moon is a Harsh Mistress|publisher=Penguin Random House|year_published=2018|section=Book 1, Chapter 2|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=PYtZDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false

22. {{quote-book|en|year=2003|author=Lionel Shriver|title=We Need to Talk about Kevin|location=London|publisher=Serpent’s Tail|year_published=2006|page=461|pageurl=https://books.google.ca/books?id=MUaZA49v1P8C&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false

23. pestilent; (l)