a. [ L. anapaesticus, Gr.
a. Anapestic. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. intempestivus: cf. F. intempestif. See In- not, and Tempestive. ] Out of season; untimely. [ Obs. ] Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Intempestive bashfulness gets nothing. Hales. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Unseasonably. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. intempestivitas: cf. F. intempestivité. ] Unseasonableness; untimeliness. [ Obs. ] Hales. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. pestis pest + ductus a leading, fr. ducere to lead. ] That which conveys contagion or infection. [ Obs. ] Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. pestiferus, pestifer; pestis pest + ferre to bear: cf. F. pestifère. ]
Pestiferous reports of men very nobly held. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a pestiferous manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. pestilence, L. pestilentia. See Pestilent. ]
The pestilence that walketh in darkness. Ps. xci. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]
I'll pour this pestilence into his ear. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Pestilence weed (Bot.),
a. [ L. pestilens, -entis, fr. pestis pest: cf. F. pestilent. ] Pestilential; noxious; pernicious; mischievous. “Corrupt and pestilent.” Milton. “What a pestilent knave is this same!” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. F. pestilentiel. ]
So pestilential, so infectious a thing is sin. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Pestilently. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Pestilential. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a pestilent manner; mischievously; destructively. “Above all measure pestilently noisome.” Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being pestilent. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ LL. pestillum, L. pistillum. See Pestle. ] The act of pounding and bruising with a pestle in a mortar. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. tempestivus. ] Seasonable; timely;
n. [ L. tempestivitas. ] The quality, or state, of being tempestive; seasonableness. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]