Meanings of mephitic air in English

Evidently the author had himself breathed the mephitic air of eighteenth-century skepticism.

Lewis got half way down when a rank waft of acrid and mephitic air met him and half-choked him.

Masses of the population are allowed to live crowded together in unwholesome dens, half poisoned by the mephitic air of the neighbourhood.

These latter, so environed, would be in a condition too like that of a candle in the mephitic air of a vault.

And the effects of this mephitic air may prove more durable than the contribution of its creators to the political reorganization of Europe.

The wreck was removed from the skylight, and under the water, in that dense chamber, stagnant with mephitic air, the bruised, stupefied hong was found.

The heat in this wretched hole was stifling, and one breathed a mephitic air which would have given cholera, if cholera had then been invented!

He threw out phlogiston and mephitic airs.