Word of the Day:
mephitic
What It Means
Foul-smelling or noxious, particularly of a gas or atmosphere.
Mephitic in Context
“It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but...”
Did You Know?
From Latin mephīticus, from mephītis; compare French méphitique.
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