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Mephitic   Listen
adjective
Mephitical, Mephitic  adj.  
1.
Tending to destroy life; poisonous; noxious; as, mephitic exhalations; mephitic regions.
2.
Offensive to the smell; as, mephitic odors.
Mephitic air (Chem.), carbon dioxide; so called because of its deadly suffocating power. See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.





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"Mephitic" Quotes from Famous Books



... that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords? Imagination, choked as in mephitic air, recoils on itself, and will not forward with the picture. The Woolsack, the Ministerial, the Opposition Benches—infandum! infandum! And yet why is the thing impossible? Was not every soul, or rather every body, of these Guardians of our Liberties, naked, ...
— Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History • Thomas Carlyle


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