lethiferous

English

Etymology

Latin lethifer, letifer, from lethum, letum (“death”) + ferre (“to bear, to bring”). Compare French léthifère.

Adjective

lethiferous (comparative more lethiferous, superlative most lethiferous)

  1. (obsolete) Deadly, lethal.
    • 1658, John Robinson, Eudoxa, p. 151 - Those that are really lethiferous are but excrescencies of sin

Translations

References
  • lethiferous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1914
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