| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Tending to destroy life; poisonous; noxious; as, mephitic exhalations; mephitic regions.[Websters]
2. Offensive to the smell; as, mephitic odors.[Websters] 3. Being miasmal or baneful. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb mephitically.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "MEPHITICAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1778. (references) |
