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In the following example, it is ufed adjeftivelys 
The malefattor goat was laid 
On Bacchus’ altar, and his forfeit paid. Dryden, 
MALEF'IC, adj. [malefcus, Lat.] Mifchievous; hurt¬ 
ful. 
MAL'EFICE,/. [French.] An evil deed : 
He crammed them with crums of benefices. 
And fill’d their mouths with meads of malefices. Spenfer. 
MALEF'ICENCE, /. Mifchievoufnefs. Phillips. 
MALEF'ICENT, adj. Doing evil; mifchievous. Cole. 
To MALEFIC'IATE, v. n. To do evil, to be mif¬ 
chievous. Cole. 
MALEG'ERENT, adj. [from Lat. male, evil, and gero, 
to do.] Behaving ill; improvident. Scott. 
MALEGH'ERY, a town of Hindooftan, in Myfore : 
twenty miles fouth of Oulfoor. 
MA'LEK SHA'H, Sultan of the Turks. See the ar¬ 
ticle Turkey. 
MA'LEL, Mel'li, or Lam'lem, a town of Nigritia, on 
a river which runs into the Niger. Lat. 13.40. N. Ion. 
9. 36.E, 
MALE'LA, or Mel'eles (John), a monk of Antioch, 
wrote in Greek a chronicle from the creation to the reign 
of Juftinian, which is extant, but in an imperfeft ftate. 
It was publiflied from a manufcript in the Bodleian library, 
by Edward Chilmead of Oxford, in 1691, oftavo; and was 
republilhed as a kind of appendix to the Byzantine his¬ 
torians at Venice in 1733. The work is of little value for 
the matter, and the ltyle is barbarous; but it contains 
fome circumftances not to be found elfewhere. Vojfii Hijl, 
■Greec. 
MALEM'BO, a feaport of Africa, in the kingdom of 
j Gacongo. It was formerly the capital of a fmall ftate, whofe 
prince was called Malemba Nekakany, i. e. Prince of the 
Upright. It contains about 700 houfes or huts, and is fur- 
rounded with a wall of rough (tones, piled together with¬ 
out mortar. The king has a palace here, in which he fome- 
times refides, of one (toFy, badly built; the out-buildings 
are inhabited by foldiers. The Dutch and Portuguefe 
have counting-houfes and warehoufes for ivory and raw 
minerals, which they get in exchange for European goods. 
It is fifteen miles fouth-weft of Cacongo. 
MAL'EMORT, a.town of France, in the department 
of the Mouths of the Rhone, on the Durance: fix miles 
fouth of Salon. 
MALE'NE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Lozere, on the Tarn : fifteen miles fouth-lbuth-.weft of 
Mende. 
MALEN'GIN, / [French.] Evil artifice : 
But the chafte damzell.that had never priefe 
Of fuch malengine and fine forgerye. 
Did eafely beleeve her ftrong extremitye. Spenfer. 
MAL'ENTHEIM, a river of Carinthia, which, united 
with the Gos, runs into the Lyzer near Gmund. 
MAL'EPRACTICE,/. Practice contrary to rules. 
MALER'MI, or Maler'bi (Nicholas), an Italian 
monk in the Sixteenth century, and a Venetian by birth, 
is entitled to notice, for having been the author of the 
firft printed verfion of the Scriptures into the Italian lan¬ 
guage. It is faid, indeed, that the Italians poflefs more 
ancient tranflations of the facred books into their native 
idiom, which remain in manufcript. Detached parts of 
Scripture had alfo before been given to the public in Ita¬ 
lian ; but not the whole of the Bible. Malerbi, therefore, 
rendered an acceptable Service to his countrymen by this 
undertaking, which was printed and corrected by hdmfelf, 
at Venice, in 1471, in two volumes folio, under the title 
of Biblia volgare Ifioriata. This edition is now very rare ; 
and was fucceeded by others, which are more common, of 
,the dates of 1477 and 1481. Malerbi was alfo the author 
.©f The kjvea of all the Saints, publifhed at Venice in 1475, 
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in folio. He was of the order of Camaldolines, -and rofe 
to the rank of abbot. Landi's Hijl. de la Lit. de I'ltalie. 
MALESHER'BES, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Loiret : ten miles north-eaft of Pithiviers, and 
thirteen foulh-eaft of Eftampes. 
MALESHER'BES, in biography. See Lamoignon, 
vol. xii. p. no. 
MAL'ESCHITZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Kaurzim : five miles eaft of Prague. 
MAL'ESON, f. [from the Lat. male, evil, and forms, a 
found.] A curfe. Bailey. 
MALESTROI'T, a town of France, in the department 
of the Morbihan : feven miles fouth of Ploermel, and fix- 
teen eaft-north-eaft of Vannes. Lat. 47.49. N. Ion. 2. 
18. W. 
MAL'ETREATED, adj. [from the Lat. male, evil, 
and traElo, to handle.] Abufed; ill-ufed. 
MAL'ETREATMENT,/ Abufe; ill-ufage. 
MALET'TA-MA'LA-MARAVA'RA. See Acros- 
TICHUM. 
MALETU'VY, a town of the ifland of Ceylon, on the 
fouth coaft: forty miles fouth of Yale. 
MAL'EVAL, a town of France, in the department of 
the Rhone and Loire : fifteen miles fouth of St. Etienne. 
MAL'EVANT, a fmall ifland in the Englilh Channel, 
near the coaft of France. Lat. 47. 22. N. 
MALEVEN'TUM, the ancient name of Beneventum-; 
for the reafon of the change, fee that word, vol. ii. Now 
Benevento. Talleyrand, ex-bifhop of Autun, was created 
Prince of Benevento during the profperity of Bonaparte. 
The claffical wits of Paris would fometimes call him 
Prince of Malevento 5 but furely with great injuftice j for, 
taking the proper title in its literal meaning, “ good wind," 
it mult be confeffed that every wind that has blown in 
France for three-and-twenty years paft ; namely, the re¬ 
publican wind, the confular wind, the imperial wind, and 
at length the royal wind, has blown “good" to that dif- 
tinguifhed perfonage. It remains to be feen whether the 
imperial wind, which again blows at the prefent moment, 
will be equally propitious. 
MALEVIL'LE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Aveiron : four miles north-eaft of Ville Franche, 
and twenty-one weft of Rhodez. 
MALEVOLENCE,^ [malevolentia, Lat.] Ill-will} in¬ 
clination to hurt others ; malignity ; 
The fon of Duncan 
Lives in the Englifh court; and is receiv’d 
Of the molt pious Edward with fuch grace, 
That the malevolence of fortune nothing 
Takes from his high refpeft. Shakefpeare's Macbeth. 
MALEVOLENT, adj. Ill-difpofed towards others j 
unfavourable j malignant: 
I have thee in my arms, 
Though our malevolent ftars have ftruggled hard. 
And held us long afunder. Dryden's King Arthur. 
MALEVOLENTLY, adj. Malignly; malignantly j 
with ill-will.—The oak did not only refent his fall, but 
vindicate him from afperfions malevolently caft upon him. 
Howel. 
MALEVOLENTNESS, /. The ftate of being malevo¬ 
lent, malignity. 
MA'LECJS SI'NUS, in ancient geography, the Gulf of 
Malea, called by the pirates who infefted it the Golden 
Gulf, on account of the rich prizes which they captured 
here. 
MAL'EXANDER, a town of Sweden, in Weft Goth¬ 
land : twenty-five miles fouth of Linkioping. 
MALE'YA, or Maleia, a town on the ibuth coaft of 
the ifland of Ternate, where the Dutch have a Settlement, 
Lat. 8. 55. N. Ion. 12. 14. E. 
MALFE'ASANCE, /. The aft of doing evil; an evil 
deed. A law-term. 
MALFLLA'TRE, 
