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  • noun Profane language of all kinds.

Etymologies

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From Latin maledicta, plural of maledictum ("curse, insult")

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Examples

  • Why do we think bleeping a swear word (maledicta, scatologisms, etc) makes it family friendly?

    Scatologisms, maledictia, and other fun things joshenglish 2009

  • The one, of extreme bitterness of words, especially if they be aculeate and proper; for cummunia maledicta are nothing so much; and again, that in anger a man reveal no secrets; for that, makes him not fit for society.

    The Essays 2007

  • His words, Catullus cum maledicta minaretur, compared with the last lines of this poem, Irascere iterum meis iambis Inmerentibus, unice imperator, seem to justify my view that they belong here.

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • His words, Catullus cum maledicta minaretur, compared with the last lines of this poem, Irascere iterum meis iambis Inmerentibus, unice imperator, seem to justify my view that they belong here.

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • Atque hac persuasione vulgi fama inoleuit dum (vt ad maledicta optimè assuefactum est) vnus alteri huius montis incendum imprecatur.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Atque hac persuasione vulgi fama inoleuit dum (vt ad maledicta optim� assuefactum est) vnus alteri huius montis incendum imprecatur.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Adae vero ait, Quia paruisti voci uxoris tuae, et comedisti ex arbore de qua praeceperam tibi, dicens, Non comedes ex ea: maledicta terra propter to: in labore comedes eam cunctis diebus vitae tuae.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • (Genesis 3: 17), as “maledicta terra in opere tuo,” rather than “maledicta humus propter te.”

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON 1968

  • His words, _Catullus cum maledicta minaretur_, compared with the last lines of this poem, _Irascere iterum meis iambis Inmerentibus, unice imperator_, seem to justify my view that they belong here.

    The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus

  • In the work of these primitive scribes all the punctuation is found, by the modern investigator with his optical instruments and chemical tests, to have been inserted by the writers 'ingenious and serviceable collaborator, the common house-fly -- _Musca maledicta_.

    INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition) 1911

  • All of these come to­gether, says Walker, in “mal­edicta”, or curse words, which can be made up of some or all of these com­pon­ents.

    Miscellany № 90: 🌀🪐☆✻, or, the grawlix – Shady Characters Keith Houston 2023

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