Meanings
adverbpestiferously (comparative more pestiferously, superlative most pestiferously)
comparative more pestiferously · superlative most pestiferously
- In a pestiferous manner.
After its first blunder-born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships, long shunned those shores as pestiferously barbarous; but the whale-ship touched there.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 24”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
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