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rity of the French language to the lad moment of his life.” 
And it is faid, that, when this fame confeflbr was painting 
to him the joys of heaven in mean and vulgar terms, he 
defired he would fay no more, left his bad ftyle fhould 
give him a difguft to it. 
With all thefe defefls of character, the name of Mal¬ 
herbe is revered as the father of cultivated French poetry; 
and, if his own works are no longer much read, his eulogy 
by Boileau cannot fail of immortalizing his name. The 
fdife of this pafl'age, Enfin Malherbe vint. See, is, that he 
•was th.e firft in France who wrote verfe with a juft cadence, 
who harmonized and purified the language, and reduced 
the mufe within the limits of duty. His nicety in dic¬ 
tion rendered him a very flow and laborious compofer ; 
and hence the fum of his works is but final), confidering 
the length of his life and leifure. They contift of odes, 
ftanzas, fonnets, epigrams, fongs, and other fhort pieces, 
many of them complimentary addrefles to the great, and 
feveral of a devotional call. He publirtied alio in prole 
a tranflation of Seneca de Beneficiis, and of the thirty- 
fecond book of Livy ; and fome letters. The belt edi¬ 
tions of Malherbe are thole of 1722, in 3'vols. nmo. with 
the remarks of Menage; and of 1757) 8vo. Paris, by Saint 
Marc. Moreri. 
MALHEUREU'X, a fmall ifland in the gulf of Mexico, 
near the coall of Weft Florida. Lat. 3-0.6. N. Ion. 89. 
28. V/. 
MAL'HOLM TA'RN, near Shipton in Craven, in the 
county of York. This tarn, or lake, of between three 
and four hundred acres, is iituated among high hills, by 
which it is fupplied with water, which, after quitting the 
the lake, runs in one Itream for two or three hundred 
yards, then finks into the ground at two different places, 
which it is probable afterwards emerge, and immediately 
join the river Air. Phil. Travf. vol. xli. 
MA'LI FO'LIO. See Croton and Mammea. 
MA'LIA, in ancient geography, a city of Piithiotis, 
near Mount CEta and Thermopylae. There were in its 
neighbourhood fome hot mineral waters which the poet 
Catullus has mentioned. — A gulf or fmall bay in the 
neighbourhood, at the weftern extremity of the ifland of 
Euboea, has received the name of the Gulf of Malia, Ma- 
liacum Fretum, or Maliacus Sinus. Some call it the Gulf 
of Lamia, from its vicinity to Lamia. It is often taken 
-for the Sinus Pelafgicus of the ancients. 
MALIA'NA, or Maniana, a town'of Algiers, much 
■frequented by pilgrims, on account of the tomb ot a faint 
called Sede Youfep/i. It is twelve miles fouth-fouth-eaft of 
Tefetfad. 
MA'LIC A'CID. See the article Chemistry, vol.iv. 
p. 3 * 5 - 
MALICANDUR'GAM, a town of Hindooftan, in My- 
fore : nineteen miles north of Allumbaddy. 
MAL'ICE,/. [Fr. from malitia, Lat.] Badnefs of de- 
fign; deliberate mifehief.—God hath forgiven me many 
fins of malice ; and therefore furely he will pity my infir- 
.mities. Taylor's Holy Living. —Ill-intention to any one ; 
deiire of hurting: 
Duncan is in his grave ; 
Malice domeftic, foreign levy, nothing 
Can touch him further! Skakcfpeart's Macbeth. 
Malice, in ethics and law, is a formed defign of doing 
mifehief to another ; it differs from hatred. In murder, it 
is malice makes the crime: and if a man, having a malicious 
intent to kill another, in the execution of his malice kills 
a perfon not intended, the malice fliall be connected to his 
perfon, and he fliall be adjudged a murderer. The words 
ex malitia preccogitata, are neeeffary to an indictment of 
murder, &c. And this malitia preccogitata, or “ malice pre- 
.penfe,” may be either exprefl’ed or implied in law. Expre/s 
malice is, when one, with a fedate deliberate mind, and 
formed defign, kills another; which formed defign is evi¬ 
denced by eternal circumftances difeovering that inten¬ 
tion ; as lying in wait, antecedent menaces, former grudges, 
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and concerted fchemes to clo him fome bodily harm. Im¬ 
plied malice is where a man wilfully poifons another: infuch 
a deliberate aft the law prefumes malice, though no par¬ 
ticular enmity can be proved. And, if a man kills an¬ 
other fuddenly, without any confiderable provocation, the 
law implies malice; for no perfon, unlefs of an abandoned 
heart, w’ould be guilty of fuch an aft upon a flight caufe. 
To MALICE, v. a. To regard with ill-will. Obsolete, 
The caufe why he this fly fo maliced, 
Was that his mother which him bore and bred, 
The moft fine-fingered workman on the ground, 
Arachne, by his means, was vanquiflied. Spcnfer. 
MALICHAN', a fmall ifland, near the coaft of China, 
in Quang-tong : ten miles fouth-welt of Macao. 
MAL'ICHO, a town on the fouth-coaft of the ifland 
of Mindanao. Lat. 7.4.8. N. Ion. 124. 21. E. 
' MALI'CIOUS, adj. Sjnalicieux, Fr. malitiofus, Lat.] III- 
difpofed to any one; intending ill; malignant.—The air 
appearing fo malicious in this morbific confpiracy, exacts 
a more particular regard. Harvey on Confumptions. 
We mull not flint 
Our neeeffary aftions in the fear 
To cope malicious cenfurers ; which ever 
As rav’nous fifties do a veil'd follow 
That is new-trimm’d. Shakefpeare's Henry VIIL 
MALI'CIOUSLY, adv. With malignity ; with inten¬ 
tion of mifehief.—An intrigue between bis majefty and 
a junto of minitters malicioujly bent againft me, broke out, 
and had like to have ended in my utter dellruftion. Swift. 
MALI'CIOUSNESS, f. Malice; intention of mifehief 
to another. 
Not out of envy or malicioufnefs, 
Do I forbear to crave your fpecial aid. Herbert. 
MALICOR'NE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Sarte, on the Sarte; fix miles north of La Fleche, 
and fixteen fouth-weft of Le Mans. 
MALICOR'NE, a rock in the Englifn Channel, near 
the coaft of France. Lat. 48. 58. N. Ion. 1. 52. W. 
MALICOY', an ifland in the Indian Ocean, between 
the Laccadive and Maidive iflands. This is a fmall low 
ifland, furrounded with breakers, dependent on a rajah 
of the Malabar coaft. Lat. 8. 20. N. Ion. 72. 45.E. 
MALICURGINAGUR', a town of Hindooftan, in My- 
fore ; fifty miles fouth of Seringapatam. 
MALID'IA, a - town of Africa, on the eaft coaft of Tu¬ 
nis : no miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Tunis. 
MALIG'HERY, a town of Hindooftan, in Baramaul ; 
thirty miles fouth-eaft of Darempoory. 
MALI'GN, adj. \jnaligne, Fr. malignus, Lat. Thesis 
mute.] Unfavourable; ill-difpofed to any one ; malicious. 
•—Witchcraft may be by operation of malign fpirits. Bacon, 
If in the conftellations war were fprung. 
Two planets, rufhing from afpecl malign 
Of fierceft opposition, in mid-fky 
Should combat, and their jarring fpheres confound. Milton. 
Infedlious; fatal to the body ; peftilential.—Bethatturn- 
eth the humours back, and maketh the wound bleed in¬ 
wards, endangereth malign ulcers and pernicious impof- 
thumations. Bacon's EJJays. 
To MALI'GN, v. a. To regard with envy or malice.-— 
It is a pleafure to be envied and (hot at, to be maligned 
Handing, and to be defpifed falling ; then is it a pleature 
to be great, and to be able to difpofe of men’s fortunes. 
South. —To mifehief; to hurt; to harm. 
MALIG'NANCY, f. Malevolence; malice; unfavour- 
ablenefs.—My itars fhine darkly over me; the malignancy 
of my fate might, perhaps, diltemper yours; therefore I 
crave your leave that I may bear my evils alone. ShakeJ- 
peare. —Deftruflive tendency.—The infection doth pro¬ 
duce a bubo, which, according to the degree of its malig¬ 
nancy, either proves eafily curable, or ell’e it proceeds m 
its vejioin. Wife man's Surgery. 
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