"mephitic" meaning in English

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      "form": "more mephitic",
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        {
          "word": "mephitic acid"
        },
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          "word": "mephitic air"
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          "word": "mephitic toad"
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          "ref": "1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LXI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 151–152:",
          "text": "\"I could have borne the sight of his crutch,\" said she, \"but the crutch and the nephew together really oppress me like a mephitic vapour.\"",
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          "ref": "1874, Marcus Clarke, chapter V, in For the Term of His Natural Life:",
          "text": "It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust. There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate.",
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          "ref": "1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:",
          "text": "From this crawling flapping mass of obscene reptilian life came the shocking clamor which filled the air and the mephitic, horrible, musty odor which turned us sick.",
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          "ref": "1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 3:",
          "text": "More than that, perhaps the worst thing, was a sort of mephitic fog, moistureless and invisible, that came and went like an exhalation of the arid earth itself.",
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