verminiferous

But how could human valour or human wisdom fight against numbers numberless, bred as though from verminiferous pains?

Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895

The Abbot could do nothing with the stubborn, opinionated, maniacally excited boy, and dismissed him to the career of verminiferous glory which he afterwards attained as the first of the

Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895