Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An obsolete form of maleficent.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Doing evil, harm, or mischief.

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  • adjective Doing evil, harm, or mischief.

Etymologies

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See maleficent.

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Examples

  • The pilot had guided the "Marguerite" on a course of about forty-five miles southward, when we approached _Northport_, Michigan, a place noteworthy for having not a single of those maleficient institutions, commonly styled beer-saloons.

    By Water to the Columbian Exposition Johanna S. Wisthaler

  • Sir Philip, as I have shown the reader, had a habit of brooding over any thing which excited much interest in his breast -- nay more, of extracting from it, by a curious sort of alchemy, essence very different from its apparent nature, sometimes bright, fine, and beneficial, and others dark and maleficient.

    The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 Various

  • Millions of miles away from the earth, confronted on an asteroid by these diabolical monsters from a maleficient planet, who were on the point of destroying them with a strange torment of death -- perhaps it was really more than human nature, deprived of the support of human surroundings, could have been expected to bear.

    Edison's Conquest of Mars 1890

  • But speculation about whether the source's purpose was, as Lord Justice Sedley claimed, 'on any view a maleficient one, caluculated to do harm whether for profit or for spite' cannot be grounds for forcing the exposure of media sources.

    Press Gazette Latest News 2009

  • I suggest also: the unconvicted president; the unimpeached president; the resigned president; the nonfelon president; the maleficient president; the scheming president; the conniving president; the criminal president.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 1 1981

  • (they usually worked separately) to uncover the maleficient women (or in some cases men, including, interestingly, clergymen).

    Sub Ratione Dei 2008

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