Definition of Mephetic
{ Me*phit"ic (?), Me*phit"ic*al (?), }
a. [L. mephiticus, fr. mephitis
mephitis: cf. F. méphitique.] 1.
Tending to destroy life; poisonous; noxious; as, mephitic
exhalations; mephitic regions.
2. Offensive to the smell; as,
mephitic odors.
Mephitic air (Chem.), carbon dioxide;
-- so called because of its deadly suffocating power. See Carbonic
acid, under Carbonic.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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