Mephitis

Quick meaning: Mephitis is a noun meaning A poisonous or foul-smelling gas, especially as emitted from the earth; an unpleasant smell.

Meaning

A poisonous or foul-smelling gas, especially as emitted from the earth; an unpleasant smell.

More Meanings

1. (homeopathy) A dilution of fluids derived from skunks or polecats.

Example Sentences

I do not see why Dr. Hensley should object to the internal administration of Variolinum any more than to that of lachesis, mephitis, etc.

Mephitis, a highly prized remedy of the Homeopaths, is prepared by taking one part. in weight, of the characteristic fluid expelled by the pole-cat and dissolving it in ninety parts of alcohol.

The Abbe had, in the district of Latera, observed that in a mephitis of hydrogenous sulphurated or hepatic gas, a slow combustion of phosphorus took place, with the same resplendence as in the atmospheric air.

[…] conveyancing of property to a background of ships loading or discharging and the clanging of wharf cranes, but in August, when the tide was low, the River Lyle's gum-like, perspiring mud banks released a mephitis […]

Word Forms

• mephitises

Synonyms for mephitis

Depending on context, synonyms include malodour, stench, reek, mephitism.

Related Words

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