malign
malign is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets.
- 2.Malignant; as, a malign ulcer. [R.] Bacon.
- 3.To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure. [Obs.] The people practice what mischiefs and villainies they will against private men, whom they malign by stealing their goods, or murdering them. Spenser.
- 4.To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse. To be envied and shot at; to be maligned standing, and to be despised falling. South.
- 5.To entertain malice. [Obs.]
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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- What is unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets called?
- What is malignant; as, a malign ulcer. [R.] Bacon called?
- What is to speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse. To be envied and shot at; to be maligned standing, and to be despised falling. South called?
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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