MEPHIT'IC, adjective [Latin mephitis, an ill smell.] Offensive to the smell; foul; poisonous; noxious; pestilential; destructive to life.
Mephitic acid is carbonic acid.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.