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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Malign

Ma-lĭgn', a.

adjective

(ma-līn'), a. [Lat. malignus, for maligenus, i. e., of a bad kind or nature, from malus, bad, and genus, birth, race, kind; It., Sp., & Pg. maligno, Pr. maligne, Fr. malin, f. maligne.]

  1. Having a very evil disposition toward others; harboring violent hatred or enmity; malignant; malicious; as, malign spirits.
  2. Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets.
  3. Malignant; as, a malign ulcer. [Rare.] Bacon.

Ma-lign', v. t.

verbtransitive

(ma-līn'), v. t. [imp. & p. p. MALIGNED; p. pr. & vb. n. MALIGNING.] 1. To treat with malice; to show enmity toward; to injure; to harm. [Obs.] The people practice mischief against private men, whom they malign by stealing their goods and murdering them. Spencer. 2. To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to vilify; to asperse. “To be envied and shot at; to be maligned standing, and to be despised falling.” South.

Ma-lign', v. i.

verbintransitive

(ma-līn'), v. i. To entertain malice. [Obs.]