Usage examples (33)

• Many cities also went to ruin, and the famine and pestilential state of the air destroyed thousands of men and cattle.
• A pestilential malignancy in the air
• Like many other men, North or South, they were brave enough when it came to gunpowder, but were quickly vanquished at the idea of pestilential disease.
• At every fair-time "a kind of pestilential fever" raged, so that at least 400 folk were buried there annually during the five or six weeks of the market.