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Synonyms for mephitic

Grammar : Adj
Spell : muh-fit-ik
Phonetic Transcription : məˈfɪt ɪk

Définition of mephitic

Origin :
  • 1620s, "of poisonous smell," from Late Latin mephiticus, from Latin mephitis, mefitis "noxious vapor" (also personified as a goddess believed to have the power to avert it).
  • adj noxious
Example sentences :
  • The insect braves with impunity the strongest odours and mephitic miasmas.
  • Extract from : « The Insect » by Jules Michelet
  • Was the embryo ripe, that the womb had become its mephitic prison?
  • Extract from : « The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II) » by Henry Osborn Taylor
  • The warm, sluggish air lay about him, mephitic in its touch.
  • Extract from : « Carmen Ariza » by Charles Francis Stocking
  • But the heat and mephitic vapors of his native isle revenged him.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte » by William Milligan Sloane
  • Its mephitic influence in society is too palpable to be overlooked.
  • Extract from : « Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) » by Havelock Ellis
  • My own nostrils were filled by a low fetid odour, mephitic and abominable.
  • Extract from : « The Last Galley » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • First one and then another endeavoured to ascend, but with a strength unequal to the task, they fell back into the mephitic abyss.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 » by Various
  • He was brought from a nasty jail, where mephitic filth was supreme, to this place where brutal men are supreme in their cruelty.
  • Extract from : « Edith and John » by Franklin S. Farquhar
  • Lewis got half way down when a rank waft of acrid and mephitic air met him and half-choked him.
  • Extract from : « A Dream of the North Sea » by James Runciman
  • The air was full of a deafening roar, hysterical shouts, and mephitic curses.
  • Extract from : « The Russian Turmoil » by Anton Ivanovich Denikin

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