malice 
hatred : sometimes used in a lighter sense. 
See malicious, 1. 
Thy father hates my friends and family, 
And thou hast been the heir of all his malice. 
Fletcher, Pilgrim, ii. 2. 
4. In laic, a design or intention of doing mis- 
chief to another ; the evil intention (either ac- 
tual or implied) with which one deliberately, 
and without justification or excuse, does a 
wrongful act which is injurious to others. 
Actual malice, express malice, malice In fact, malice 
in which the intention includes a contemplation of some 
injury to he done. Constructive malice, implied 
malice, imputed malice, malice in law, that which, 
irrespective of actual intent to injure, is attributed by 
the law to an injurious act intentionally done, without 
proper motive, as distinguished from actual malice, either 
proved or presumed. Malice aforethought, or malice 
prepense, actual malice, particularly in case of homicide. 
= Syn, 3. Ill-will, Enmity, etc. (see animosity) ; malicious- 
ness, venom, spitefulness, depravity, 
malicet (mal'is), v. t. [< malice, n.] To regard 
with malice ; bear extreme ill-will to ; also, to 
envy and hate. 
Love and live with your fellowes honestly, quiettlye, 
curteouslye, that noe man have cause either to hate yow 
for your stubborne frowardness, or to malice yow for your 
proud ungentlenes. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 860. 
I flnde mans frailtie to be naturally such . . . that . . . 
he will seeke reuenge against them that malice him, or 
practise his harmes. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 46. 
1 am so far from malicinff their states, 
That I begin to pity them. 
B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, v. 7. 
malicedt (mal'ist),j). a. Kegarded with malice; 
envied and hated. 
Thus every day they seem'd to prate 
At malic'd Grissel's good estate. 
Patient Grissel (Child's Ballads, IV. 210). 
Your forced stings 
Would hide themselves within his maliced sides. 
B. Jonson, Poetaster, Ind. 
maliceless (mal'is-les), a. [< malice + -less.] 
Free from ill- will, hatred, or disposition to harm. 
Abp. Leighton, On Peter, i. 22. 
malichot, n. See mallcclto. 
malicious (ma-lish'us), a. [< ME. malicious, < 
OF. malicios, F. malicieux = Sp. Pg. malicioso 
= It. malizioso, < L. malitiosits, full of malice, 
wicked, malicious, < malitia, badness, malice: 
see malice.'] 1 . Indulging in or feeling malice ; 
harboring ill-will, enmity, or hostility; actively 
malevolent; malignant in heart : often used in 
a lighter sense, implying mischievousness with 
some ill-will. 
But the Saisnes that were maliciouse hadde sette espies 
on euery side of the town, and so was the Quene taken and 
the stiward slain. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 686. 
I grant him bloody, 
Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful, 
Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin 
That has a name. Shak., Macbeth, iv. 3. 59. 
2. Proceeding from extreme hatred or ill-will ; 
dictated by malice : as, a malicious report. 
He will directly to the lords, I fear, 
And with malwious counsel stir them up 
Some way or other yet further to afflict thee. 
Milton, S. A., 1. 1251. 
Malicious abandonment, in law, the desertion of a 
spouse without just cause. Malicious mischief, in 
law: (a) The committing of physical injury to personal 
property of another ; injury to property, from wantonness 
or malice, as distinguished from theft, (6) Any malicious 
or mischievous physical injury to the rights of another, 
or of the public in general. F. A. Wharton. Malicious 
prosecution, (a) A prosecution set on foot or carried on 
maliciously, without reasonable cause. From wantof prob- 
able cause malice may be inferred. The term is commonly 
applied to criminal prosecutions, but is also applicable to 
a civil prosecution. (6) An action brought by the sufferer 
to recover damages from the person who set on foot such 
a prosecution. = Syn. Evil-minded, ill-disposed, spiteful, re- 
sentful. See animosity. 
maliciously (ma-lish'us-li), adv. In amalicious 
or spiteful manner j with malice, enmity, or ill- 
will; wantonly; with wilful disregard of duty. 
maliciousness (ma-lish'us-nes), n. The qual- 
ity of being malicious; extreme enmity or dis- 
position to injure ; malignity. 
malicorium (mal-i-ko'ri-um), w. [L., < malum, 
an apple, + corium, skin, hide.] The thick and 
tough rind of the pomegranate-fruit. It has 
been used as an astringent in medicine, and for 
tanning. 
malidentiflcation (mal-i-den"ti-fi-ka'shon), n. 
[< mal- + identification.'] A false identification. 
Mr. A. Smith Woodward, after an examination of the 
type of Bucklandium diluvii, "determined that it is truly 
the imperfect head and pectoral arch of a Siluroid." In- 
credible as such a malidentifaation on the part of Pictet 
must appear, I presume the determination of Mr. Wood- 
ward must be accepted. Amer. Nat., XXII. 926. 
maliferous (ma-lif'e-rus), a, [< L. malum, an 
evil, + ferre = E. iear 1 .] Bringing evil ; un- 
wholesome ; pestilential. Bailey, 1727. [Rare.] 
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I had really forgotten to mention that gallant, fine-heart- 
ed soldier who . . . fell a victim to the maliferous climate 
of China ! W. H. ItusseU, Diary in India, I. 72. 
malign (ma-lin'), a. [< OF. moling, F. malm, 
fern, maligne = Pr. maligne = Sp. Pg. It. 
maligno, < L. malignus, of an evil nature, orig. 
*maligcnus, < mains, bad, evil, + -genus, -born: 
see-genous. Cf. benign.] 1 . Having a very evil 
disposition toward others; harboring violent 
hatred or enmity ; malicious. 
Witchcraft may be by operation of malign spirits. 
Bacon. 
2. Unpropitious ; pernicious; tending to in- 
jure; likely to do or cause great harm: as, the 
malign influence of a designing knave. 3. In 
astral., having an evil influence. 
Two planets, rushing from aspect malign 
Of fiercest opposition. Milton, P. L., vi. 313. 
4. Malignant. 
He that turneth the humours back, and maketh the 
wound bleed inwards, endangereth malign ulcers, and per- 
nicious imposthumations. 
Bacon, Seditions and Troubles (ed. 1887). 
=Syn. 1 and 2. See list under malignant. 
malign (ma-lin'), v. [< OF. malignier, maliner, 
pervert, deceive, F. dial, maligner, malign, < 
moling, F. malm, malign: see malign, a.] I. 
trans. If. To treat with extreme enmity ; injure 
maliciously. 
Though wayward fortune did malign my state, 
My derivation was from ancestors 
Who stood equivalent with mighty kings. 
Shak., Pericles, v. 1. 90. 
The scarcitie of wood and water, with the barrennesse 
of the soile in other places, shew how it is maligned of the 
Elements. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 228. 
2. To speak evil of ; traduce ; defame ; vilify. 
Be not light of credens to new raysed tales, nor crymes, 
nor suspicious to maligne no man. 
Babees Boole (E. E. T. S.), p. 106. 
Our Puritan ancestors have been misrepresented and 
maligned by persons without imagination enough to make 
themselves contemporary with, and therefore able to un- 
derstand, the men whose memories they strive to blacken. 
Lowell, Harvard Anniversary. 
=Syn. 2. Defame, Calumniate, etc. See asperse. 
II. t intrant. To entertain malice. 
This odious fool . . . maligning that anything should 
be spoke or understood above his own genuine baseness. 
Milton, Colasterion. 
malignance (ma-lig'nans), n. [< malignan(t) 
+ -ce.~] Same as malignancy. 
The minister, as being much neerer both in eye and duty 
then the magistrate, speeds him betimes to overtake that 
diff us'd malignance with some gentle potion of admonish- 
ment. MUton, Church-Government, ii. S. 
malignancy (ma-lig'nan-si), n. [< malignan(t) 
4- -cy.] 1. Tlie state of being malignant in 
feeling or purpose ; extreme malevolence; bit- 
ter enmity ; malice: as, malignancy of heart. 
In some connexions, malignity seems rather more perti- 
nently applied to a radical depravity of nature, and malig- 
nancy to indications of this depravity in temper and con- 
duct in particular instances. 
T. Cogan, On the Passions, ii. 3. 
2. In Eng. hist. , the state of being a malignant ; 
adherence to the royal party in the time of 
Cromwell and the civil war. See malignant, 
n., 2. 3. The property of expressing malice 
or evil intent; malignant or threatening na- 
ture or character; unpropitiousness. Specifically 
(a) In astral., tendency to irremediable harm or mis- 
chief: as, the malignancy of aspect of the planets. 
The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemper 
yours. Shale., T. N., ii. 1. 4. 
(6) In pathol., virulence ; tendency to a worse condition : 
as, the malignancy of a tumor. 
malignant (ma-lig'nant), a. andm. [= OF. ma- 
lignan t, < L. mdlignan( t-)s, ppr. of malignare, also 
deponent, malignari, do or make maliciously, < 
malignus, malign: see malign.'] I. a. 1. Dis- 
posed to inflict suffering or cause distress ; hav- 
ing extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently 
hostile; malicious: as, a malignant heart. 
There was a bitter and malignant party grown up now 
to such a boldness as to give out insolent and threatning 
speeches against the Parlament it selfe. 
Eikonoklastes, iv. 
malingerer 
(&) In pathol., virulent ; tending to produce death ; threat- 
ening a fatal issue : as, a malignant ulcer ; a malignant 
fever ; malignant pustule or scarlet fever. 
3. Extremely heinous : as, the malignant nature 
of sin. Malignant anthrax, fever, pustule, etc. 
See the nouns. = Syn. 1. Malevolent, bitter, rancorous, 
spiteful, malign. See animosity'. 
II. n. 1. A person of extreme enmity or evil 
intentions; an ill-affected person. 
Occasion was taken by certain malignants secretly to 
undermine his |St. Paul's] great authority in the Church 
of Christ. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, iii. 8. 
2. Specifically, in Eng. hist., one of the ad- 
herents of Charles I. and his son Charles II. dur- 
ing the civil war; a Royalist; a Cavalier: so 
called by the Roundheads, the opposite party. 
How will dissenting brethren relish it? 
What will malignants say ? 
S. Butter, Hudibras, I. ii. 630. 
One may, indeed, sometimes discover among the malig- 
nants of the sex a face that seems to have been naturally 
designed for a Whig lady. 
Addison, The Ladies' Association. 
malignantly (ma-lig'nant-li), adv. In a malig- 
nant manner; maliciously; with extreme ma- 
levolence ; with pernicious influence ; also, viru- 
lently. 
maligner (ma-li'ner), n. One who maligns or 
speaks malignantly of another; a traducer; a 
defamer. 
I come a spie? no, Roderigo, no; 
A hater of thy person, a maligner? 
So far from that, I brought no malice with me. 
Fletcher, Pilgrim, 11. 2. 
malignity (ma-lig'ni-fl), v. t.; pret. and pp. 
malignified, ppr. malignifying. [< L. malignus, 
He speaks harshly and insidiously of many of his con- 
temporaries ; and towards Cervantes . . . he is absolutely 
malignant. Ticknor, Span. Lit., III. 91. 
2. Virulently harmful or mischievous ; threat- 
ening great danger ; pernicious in influence or 
effect. 
Noxious and malignant plants do many of them discover 
something in their nature by the sad and melancholick 
visage of their leaves, flowers, and fruit. 
Kay, Works of Creation, i. 
Specifically (a) In atrtrol., threatening to fortune or life ; 
fateful : as, the malignant aspect of the stars. 
O malignant and ill-boding stars ! 
Shak., I Hen. VI., iv. 5. 6. 
Sp. malignidad = Pg. malignidade = It. malig- 
nita, < L. malignita(t-)s, ill-will, spite, malice, 
< malignus, malign: see malign.] 1. The char- 
acter or state of being malign ; extreme enmity 
or evil disposition toward another, proceeding 
from baseness of heart; malice or malevolence; 
deep-roofed spite. 
Then cometh malignitee, thurgh which a man annoieth 
his neighbour. Chaucer, Parson's Tale. 
Thouhast . . . an unrelenting purpose a steady long- 
breathed malignity, that surpasses mine. 
Scott, Kenilworth, iv. 
2. The quality of being malign or malignant; 
extreme evilness; heinousness; specifically, in 
pathol., virulence; malignancy. 
This shows the high malignity of fraud. South. 
Some diseases . . . have in a manner worn out their 
malignity, so as to be no longer mortal. 
Dryden, Hind and Panther, Pref. 
=Syn. 1. ItttnU, Enmity (see animosity), maliciousness. 
2. Destructiveness, deadlines^, 
malignly (ma-lin'li), adv. In a malign manner; 
with extreme ill-will; unpropitiously; perni- 
ciously. 
malignment (ma-lin'ment), n. [< malign + 
-ment.] The act of maligning. [Rare.] 
That recrimination and malignment of motive. 
The Century, XXX. 675. 
Malikite (mal'ik-it), n. [< Ar. Malik (see def.) 
+ -ite 2 .] A follower of Malik, the Imam, the 
founder of one of the four great sects of Sunni 
Moslems. 
Malines lace. [< F. Malines, Mechlin lace.] 
Same as Mechlin lace (which see, under lace). 
malinfluence (mal-in'flo-ens), n. [< mal- + 
influence.'} Evil influence. 
Doubting whether opium had any connection with the 
latter stage of my bodily wretchedness (except, indeed, 
... as having left the body weaker . . . and thus predis- 
posed to any mal-injluence whatever). 
De Quineey, Confessions, App., p. 139. 
malinger (ma-ling'gfer), v. i. [< F. malingrer, 
a slang word meaning ' suffer,' but prob. also at 
one time ' pretend to be ill,' cf . malingretix. weak, 
sickly, formerly applied to beggars who feigned 
to be sick or injured in order to excite com- 
passion, < malingre, "sore, scabby, ugly, loath- 
some" (Cotgrave), now ailing, poor, weakly, 
< mal-, badly, + (prob.) OF. haingre, heingre, 
thin, emaciated, F. dial. Jiaitigre, ailing, poorly, 
prob. < L. a?ger (<xgr-), sick, ill. The sense is 
perhaps affected by association with F. muliii, 
evil, malign, and gre, inclination (cf. nwlgrr, 
maugre).'] To feign illness ; sham sickness in 
order to avoid duty; counterfeit disease. 
Hemeralopia has been observed to break out epidemi- 
cally in gaols, camps, etc. I need hardly point out that 
in such cases a careful examination should always be in- 
stituted to guard against malingering. 
J. S. Wells, Dis. of Eye, p. 418. 
malingerer (ma-linrj'ger-6r),. One who shams 
illness, especially for the purpose of shirking 
work or avoiding duty. 
