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malady|ˈmælədɪ|
Forms: 3–7 maladi(e, -ye, (5 malade, -idy), 4–6 maledie, -dy(e, 6 melady, 6– malady; pl. 5 maledius, 6 maladeis, 4– maladies.
[a. F. maladie, f. malade sick = Pr. malapte, malaute:—late L. male habitus (L. male ill, habitus pa. pple. of habēre to have); cf. the Vulgate male habens (= Gr. κακῶς ἔχων) Luke vii. 2.]
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†a. Ill health, sickness, disease (obs.).
b. A specific kind of ill health, an ailment, a disease.
c1250Kent. Serm. in O. E. Misc. 31 He was i-warisd of his maladie. c1320Sir Beues (MS. A.) 3921 God..heled him of his maladie. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 701 Fevyr, dropsy, and Iaunys, Tysyk, goute, and other maladys. a1400–50Alexander 2127 Amendid of hire malidy his moder he fyndis. 1433Rolls of Parlt. IV. 424/1 For maladie, or for any other resonable cause. c1440Lonelich Grail xxxvi. 200 They knew not fulliche his Malade. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. v. (1520) 44 b/1 He sayd he wolde helpe the kynge of his malady. a1533Ld. Berners Huon lx. 210 She tooke there such a maladye that she dyed therof. 1549Compl. Scot. vi. 57 In dangeir of diuers maladeis, as of fluxis, caterris, collic, and gut. 1588Shakes. L. L. L. iv. iii. 295 Abstinence ingenders maladies. 1647Trapp Marrow Gd. Authors in Comm. Ep. 614 Q. Elizabeth..knew, that much meat, much malady. 1789W. Buchan Dom. Med. (1790) 137 Those who breathe the impure air of cities, have many maladies to which the more happy rustics are entire strangers. 1871G. H. Napheys Prev. & Cure Dis. iii. ii. 619 The vast number of maladies which may attack our bodies.
personified.1563Sackville Induct. Mirr. Mag. xlix, And fast by him pale Maladie was plaste, Sore sicke in bed, her colour al forgone.
2. fig. A morbid or depraved condition (e.g. of mind, morals, social arrangements, etc.); something that calls for a remedy. (Cf. disease 2.)
13..Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. 239/686 To helen vs of seuen Maledius. c1385Chaucer L. G. W. 1379 Hypsip., Thow ne feltist malady Save foul delyt. 1390Gower Conf. II. 142 That ilke unsely maladie, The which is cleped Jelousie. c1410Hoccleve Mother of God 117 Beeth leches of our synful maladie. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xxii. 56 May nane remeid my melady Sa weill as ȝe, schir, veraly. 1563Homilies ii. Rebellion i. (1859) 555 Such lewd remedies being far worse than any other maladies and disorders that can be in the body of a commonwealth. 1647May Hist. Parlt. i. iv. 41 Not hoping..so quick a call of a nationall Synod, as the present malady required. 1687Dryden Hind & P. iii. 69 The matron was not slow to find What sort of malady had seized her mind. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 87 ⁋6 The cure of our intellectual maladies. 1786–7Bonnycastle Astron. i. 5 Astrology is another malady of weak minds. 1829Carlyle Misc. (1857) II. 116 Our spiritual maladies are but of Opinion. 1891E. Kinglake Australian at H. 17 A clerk's calling is not the only one overdone. That of the governess suffers from the same malady. |