pestilentialis

pestilentialis [ML < CL pestilentia+alis] 1 of or connected with an outbreak of plague. omnes egritudines, que fiunt tempore ~i breves erunt Ric. Med. Signa 38; 1363 geminato ruine ~is impetu Lit. Cant. II 446; 1480 obiit ‥ tempore ‥ magne ~i [sic] anno Christi mccclxxxvi W. Worc. Itin. 310. 2 that brings death, deadly, pestilential, of the nature of plague. b (transf.) destructive. a anhelitu ‥ ~i Bacon NM 535; ex hiis [cadaveribus] venit vapor ~is Bacon IX 28; s1276 ~is ‥ egritudo oves consumens, scabie plurimas interfecit Wals. HA I 15; 1480 cepit infirmari ~i morbo et obijt W. Worc. Itin. 254; 1511 Jacobo H. laboranti ex morbo ~i Cant. Coll. Ox. II 255.  b 1436 clade ~i undique ac ubique ‥ populum Dei devorat Reg. Heref. 216.