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Meanings of mephitic in English

Of noxious stench from atmospheric pollution.

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Usage of mephitic in English
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Evidently the author had himself breathed the mephitic air of eighteenth-century skepticism.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
2
The air was warm and charged with a pungent, almost mephitic odor.
The Winged Men of Orcon: A Complete Novelette
3
The caverns in mountains of gypsum often contain mephitic emanations and deleterious gases.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
4
He could not breathe because of the mephitic gases of imperialism and militarism.
The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, ...
5
Or would the earth be uninhabitable from the mephitic products of universal decay?
The Poison Belt
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My own nostrils were filled by a low fetid odour, mephitic and abominable.
Tales of Terror and Mystery
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Naturally, they exhale mephitic odours, though the people won't acknowledge it.
Promenades of an Impressionist
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Beneath one of them was a warning poster about the dangers of mephitic odours.
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
9
Orange butterfly tints melted inside a mephitic and enormous cloud.
The last page
10
A mephitic glow illuminated a long narrow corridor that sloped toward a black curtain.
Shift
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The mephitic gases of that region intoxicate the brain.
Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories
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The whole atmosphere of trade was mephitic with chicane.
Equality
13
The "fire-mist" and the mephitic vapors were finally swept away; another era was preparing.
Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul
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I found your friend stretched on the ground, overpowered by the mephitic exhalation of the crater.
Zanoni
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The atmosphere in those places is so mephitic.
December Love
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Over their tops rise faint wreaths of yellowish clouds and the mephitic odor becomes more pronounced.
Mr. Fortescue / An Andean Romance
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