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English
Etymology
From Latin pestis (“pest”) + ductus (“a leading”), from ducere (“to lead”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pestiduct (plural pestiducts)
- (obsolete) That which conveys contagion or infection.
1624, John Donne, “5. Meditation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: , London: A M for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, page 94:It [sickness] is an excuſe to them that are great, and pretend, & yet are loth to come; it is an inhibition to thoſe vvho vvould truly come, becauſe they may be made inſtruments, and peſtiducts, to the infectiõ [infection] of others, by their cõming.
References
“pestiduct”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.