Bible Dictionaries
Pernicious

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(a.) Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked.

(2):

(a.) Quick; swift (to burn).

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Pernicious'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/pernicious.html. 1828.