Definitionadj. of noxious stench from atmospheric pollution
Last update: July 24, 2015
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The tale of a hole from which intoxicating "mephitic" vapour arose has no early authority, nor is it scientifically probable (see A. [Please select]
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I routed him out, in the dim mephitic place reeking of sour bedding, and put Petersen in his charge. [Please select]
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Instinct of self-defense like the turtle's shell or the porcupine's quills or the mephitic weasel's extravasations. [Please select]
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A huge bat flapped its sail-like wings in my face, and returned again and again, breathing a mephitic odour that caused me to gasp. [Please select]
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No miracle of nature could excite his astonishment--no mephitic caverns, which men deemed the mouths of hell, no deep-drawn ebb tides--the standing marvel of the Mediterranean dweller, no hot springs, no spouting jets of fire. [Please select]
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