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Mephitic

Mephitic \Me*phit"ic\, Mephitical \Me*phit"ic*al\, a. [L. mephiticus, fr. mephitis mephitis: cf. F. m['e]phitique.]

  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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mephitic

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).

Wiktionary
mephitic

a. foul-smelling or noxious, particularly of a gas or atmosphere.

WordNet
mephitic

adj. of noxious stench from atmospheric pollution [syn: miasmic]

Usage examples of "mephitic".

In the perpetual darkness, things that rarely saw the surface burrowed and crept, mewling and cheeping softly to others of their own kind, hoping to avoid the mephitic, malodorous monstrosities armed with teeth and claw that would prey readily on anything that moved.

The dark red dropping sizzled where it struck the moist, mephitic street.

It was as if the entire mephitic town had decided to creep forth to teach the interlopers a lesson.

In the inner sanctuary was the tomb of Dionysus and the tripod on which Pythia sat and inhaled the mephitic gases which supposedly rose from a fissure in the earth.

Redden Alt Mer had adjusted their course at once on being informed, and now Mephitic lay directly ahead, a green jewel shining brightly in the midday sun.

Flay Creech and the jungle of Shatterstone, and he wondered how he could even think of going down to Mephitic and whatever waited there.

After Mephitic, there were no further islands to be found, and the Rocs were forced to roost on makeshift wooden platforms that were constructed from spare lumber.

But he used his voice as he had that night on Mephitic when he had gone into the castle ruins with Truls Rohk, infusing it with the magic he had discovered there.

Even after the events on Mephitic and the suspicions aroused by Truls Rohk, I believed it was best.

They must have visited the islands of Flay Creech, Shatterstone, and Mephitic, and found the keys we found.

It was so mephitic with old decay that Diana pinched her nose shut with her fingers.

From a dark, mephitic hole in the bottom of the exact center of the depression, water began to seep forth, until the pond was once again filled to its brim.

Melancholy, I might see more vividly his all-too-earthly connections with Macclesfield and Chesterfield, and beyond them, looming in the mephitic Stench, Newcastle and Mr.

Without the squeeze of crowds, the jibes of detractors, the mad mephitic mafficking of traffic, perhaps he was both more focused and less restrained.

A thickness, rancid and cloying, clogged his nostrils and threat-ened to fill his throat with mephitic glue.