Part 6779

<blockquote>The <b>malignancy</b> of my fate might perhaps distemner yours. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; <as>as, the <ex>malignancy</ex> of an ulcer or of a fever</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The state of being a malignant.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- Malice; malevolence; malignity. See <er>Malice</er>.</syn>

<h1>Malignant</h1> <Xpage=887>

<hw>Ma*lig"nant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>malignans</ets>, <ets>-antis</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>malignare</ets>, <ets>malignari</ets>, to do or make maliciously. See <er>Malign</er>, and cf. <er>Benignant</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious.</def>

<blockquote>A <b>malignant</b> and a turbaned Turk. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious.</def> "<i>Malignant</i> care."

<i>Macaulay.</i>

<blockquote>Some <b>malignant</b> power upon my life. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Something deleterious and <b>malignant</b> as his touch. <i>Hawthorne.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; <as>as, <ex>malignant</ex> diphtheria</as>.</def>

<cs><col>Malignant pustule</col> <fld>(Med.)</fld>, <cd>a very contagious disease, transmitted to man from animals, characterized by the formation, at the point of reception of the virus, of a vesicle or pustule which first enlarges and then breaks down into an unhealthy ulcer. It is marked by profound exhaustion and usually fatal. Called also <altname>charbon</altname>, and sometimes, improperly, <altname>anthrax</altname>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Malignant</h1> <Xpage=887>

<hw>Ma*lig"nant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A man of extrems enmity or evil intentions.</def>

<i>Hooker.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Eng. Hist.)</fld> <def>One of the adherents of Charles L. or Charles LL.; -- so called by the opposite party.</def>

<h1>Malignantly</h1> <Xpage=887>

<hw>Ma*lig"nant*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt><def>In a malignant manner.</def>

<h1>Maligner</h1> <Xpage=887>

<hw>Ma*lign"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who maligns.</def>

<h1>Malignify</h1> <Xpage=887>

<hw>Ma*lig"ni*fy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Malignified</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Malignifying</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>malignus</ets> malign + <ets>-fy</ets>.]</ety> <def>To make malign or malignant.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark> "A strong faith <i>malignified</i>."

<i>Southey.</i>

<h1>Malignity</h1> <Xpage=887>

<hw>Ma*lig"ni*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>malignit\'82</ets>, L. <ets>malignitas</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Virulence; deadly quality.</def>

<blockquote>His physicians discerned an invincible <b>malignity</b> in his disease. <i>Hayward.</i></blockquote>