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Definition: Mephitical
Mephitic
\Me*phit"ic\, Mephitical
\Me*phit"ic*al\, a. [L.
mephiticus, fr. mephitis mephitis: cf. F. m['e]phitique.]
1. Tending to destroy life; poisonous; noxious; as, mephitic
exhalations; mephitic regions.
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2. Offensive to the smell; as, mephitic odors.
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Mephitic air (Chem.), carbon dioxide; -- so called because
of its deadly suffocating power. See
Carbonic acid,
under
Carbonic.
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