Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To do evil to; especially, to bewitch; affect with enchantments.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To bewitch; to harm.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
bewitch ; toharm .
Etymologies
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Late Latin maleficiatus, past participle of maleficiare to bewitch.
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