Word of the Day
mephitic \muh-FIT-ik\, adjective:
1. Offensive to the smell; as, mephitic odors.
2. Poisonous; noxious.
The mephitic stench from the bilge became overpowering.
--Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834
Over everything presides "a sort of mephitic fog," a pervasive sulfuric stink.
--Dale Peck, "Way Outback," New York Times, March 22, 1998
. . . unpoisoned by the mephitic vapours which poisoned the atmosphere of his police-office.
--Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
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