Aestiferous vs Pestiferous - What's the difference?
aestiferous | pestiferous |
ÆSTIʹFEROUS [æstifer, L.] ebbing and flowing as the tide while pestiferous is containing organisms that cause contagious diseases.
(obsolete, not comparable) “Turbulent]] as the tide”; “ebbing and flowing as the tide”.An Universal Etymological English Dictionary'' by [[w:Nathan Bailey, Nathan Bailey (1731),
ÆSTI?FEROUS [''æstifer , L. ebbing and flowing as the tide.
* 1859 : John D. Bryant, M. D., Redemption, a Poem ,
(comparable, chiefly, used figuratively) Producing much (aestival) heat.
* 1979 : J. Ron Stanfield, Economic Thought and Social Change ,
containing organisms that cause contagious diseases
* 1589 : Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations
* 1792 : Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
* 1853 : Charles Dickens, Bleak House
annoying, vexatious
* 1592 : William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 1
* 1896 : Mark Twain, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
* 1938 : Jerome Siegel and Joe Shuster, "Superman" in Action Comics #7, page 2:
As adjectives the difference between aestiferous and pestiferous
is that aestiferous is “Turbulent as the tide”; “ebbing and flowing as the tide”.An Universal Etymological English Dictionary by Nathan Bailey (1731),ÆSTIʹFEROUS [æstifer, L.] ebbing and flowing as the tide while pestiferous is containing organisms that cause contagious diseases.
aestiferous
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic) * estiferousAdjective
(en adjective)page 28]
ÆSTI?FEROUS [''æstifer , L. ebbing and flowing as the tide.
page 241(John Penington & Son)
- Thus they, estiferous , the hollow sphere
Within, rack’d, and raged against the Highest.
page 148(Southern Illinois University Press; ISBN 0809309149, 9780809309146)
- Moreover, if the analogy to political revolution teaches anything at all, its instruction would seem to be that revolution is a wasteful and excessively estiferous process.
References
pestiferous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- because he hath vouchsafed to preserue our nation from such fountains, from serpents and venemous wormes, & from al other pestiferous & contagious creatures.
- In these solemn moments man discovers the germ of those vices, which like the Java tree shed a pestiferous vapour around--death is in the shade!
- and bears the body of our dear brother here departed to a hemmed-in churchyard, pestiferous and obscene, whence malignant diseases are communicated to the bodies of our dear brothers and sisters who have not departed...
- No, prelate; such is thy audacious wickedness, / Thy lewd, pestiferous , and dissentious pranks, / As very infants prattle of thy pride.
- and if any could have hanged his hindering and pestiferous council and set him free, he would have answered Joan's prayer and set her in the field.
- Lois rescues Clark from the pestiferous curly...
