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<hw>Mal"ice</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To regard with extreme ill will.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Malicho</h1> <Xpage=887>

<hw>Mal"i*cho</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Sp. <ets>malhecho</ets>; <ets>mal</ets> bad + <ets>hecho</ets> deed, L. <ets>factum</ets>. See <er>Fact</er>.]</ety> <def>Mischief.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Malicious</h1> <Xpage=887>

<hw>Ma*li"cious</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Of. <ets>malicius</ets>, F. <ets>malicieux</ets>, fr. L. <ets>malitiosus</ets>. See <er>Malice</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Indulging or exercising malice; harboring ill will or enmity.</def>

<blockquote>I grant him bloody, . . . Sudden, <b>malicious</b>, smacking of every sin That has a name. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Proceeding from hatred or ill will; dictated by malice; <as>as, a <ex>malicious</ex> report; <ex>malicious</ex> mischief.</as></def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld><def>With wicked or mischievous intentions or motives; wrongful and done intentionally without just cause or excuse; <as>as, a <ex>malicious</ex> act</as>.</def>

<cs><col>Malicious abandonment</col>, <cd>the desertion of a wife or husband without just cause. <i>Burrill</i>.</cd> -- <col>Malicious mischief</col> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>malicious injury to the property of another; -- an offense at common law. <i>Wharton</i>.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Malicious prosecution</col> &or; <col>arrest</col></mcol> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>a wanton prosecution or arrest, by regular process in a civil or criminal proceeding, without probable cause. <i>Bouvier</i>.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- Ill-disposed; evil-minded; mischievous; envious; malevolent; invidious; spiteful; bitter; malignant; rancorous; malign.</syn>

-- <wordforms><wf>Ma*li"cious*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Ma*li"cious*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Malign</h1> <Xpage=887>

<hw>Ma*lign"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>malignus</ets>, for <ets>maligenus</ets>, i. e., of a bad kind or nature; <ets>malus</ets> bad + the root of <ets>genus</ets> birth, race, kind: cf. F. <ets>malin</ets>, masc., <ets>maligne</ets>, fem. See <er>Malice</er>, <er>Gender</er>, and cf. <er>Benign</er>, <er>Malignant</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to <i>benign</i>.</def>

<blockquote>Witchcraft may be by operation of <b>malign</b> spirits. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; <as>as, a <ex>malign</ex> aspect of planets</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Malignant; <as>as, a <ex>malign</ex> ulcer</as>.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<h1>Malign</h1> <Xpage=887>

<hw>Ma*lign"</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Maligned</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Maligning</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. L. <ets>malignare</ets>. See <er>Malign</er>, <tt>a.</tt>]</ety> <def>To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure</def>. <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The people practice what mischiefs and villainies they will against private men, whom they <b>malign</b> by stealing their goods, or murdering them. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse.</def>

<blockquote>To be envied and shot at; to be <b>maligned</b> standing, and to be despised falling. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Malign</h1> <Xpage=887>

<hw>Ma*lign"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To entertain malice.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Malignance, Malignancy</h1> <Xpage=887>

<hw><hw>Ma*lig"nance</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Ma*lig"nan*cy</hw> ,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Malignant</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; <as>as, <ex>malignancy</ex> of heart</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Unfavorableness; evil nature.</def>