1. mephitic - Adjective
2. mephitic - Adjective Satellite
Alt. of Mephitical
Source: Webster's dictionaryReviewers immediately criticised the novel's decadence and homosexual allusions; The Daily Chronicle for example, called it "unclean", "poisonous", and "heavy with the mephitic odours of moral and spiritual putrefaction". Source: Internet
Nitrogen gas was inert enough that Antoine Lavoisier referred to it as "mephitic air" or azote, from the Greek word ἄζωτος main azotos, "lifeless". Source: Internet