meschant

Où il est aussi monstré, qu'il est licite de punir les heretiques: et qu'à bon droict ce meschant a esté executé par justice en la ville de Genève.

The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird

Vit aussi vn grand homme noir à l'opposite de celuy de la cheminée, qui regardoit dans vn liure, dont les feuillets estoient noirs & bleuds, & marmotoit entre ses dents sans entendre ce qu'il disoit, leuoit vne hostie noire, puis vn calice de meschant estain tout crasseux.

The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

Respond qu'vn bon Iuge pourroit bien faire emporter lesdites Marionettes, d'autant qu'elles craignent fort les bons Iuges: mais qu'vn Iuge qui ne feroit pas bien la Iustice, ny gagneroit rien, & que les Sorciers peuuent ensorceller vn meschant Iuge, parce que Dieu l'a abandonné.

The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

And to a meschant man it sufficeth not when he hath enough, but he is busy day and night to get more without rest.

The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900

Now is that grace from you departed and ye become meschant and wretches, which were in the faith strong and mighty.

The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900

The which thing happed not long after, for the meschant recluse leaving the way of salvation and of penitence, went out from his cell, and took a worldly and damnable way.

The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900

But the father, which was named Quindelor, when he saw that he could find no counsel nor remedy for this malady, began to cry and call on S. Clare the holy virgin, and said: To thee that art worthy of all honours, I avow my child which is meschant and caitiff, and pray thee, right sweet saint, that thou wilt send to my child health.

The Golden Legend, vol. 6 1230-1298 1900

-- Brantôme, (Vies des Hommes Illustres, Footnote: p. 72,) who speaks of Madrigalejo as a "meschant village," which he had seen.

The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 William Hickling Prescott 1827

Bon bastard c'est d'avanture, meschant c'est la nature.

Bacon is Shake-Speare Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence 1875

-- "Ah! ces pauvres morts! que j'ai eu un meschant conseil!

Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance Walter Pater 1866