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▪ I. malison, n. arch. and dial.|ˈmælɪsən|
Forms: 4 malisun(e, malysun, malesun, maliscun, malescun, malicun, malicoun, 4–5 malyson(e, malisoun(e, 4–6 malysoun, 5–6 maleso(u)n(e, 6 malisone, 7 mallison, 4– malison.
[a. OF. maleison:—L. maledictiōn-em malediction.]
1. A curse, malediction.
a1300Cursor M. 2051 His malison on þam he laid. c1300Havelok 426 Haue he the malisun to-day Of alle þat eure speken may! c1320Sir Beues 3696, I praie Mahoun Þar fore ȝeue þe is malisoun. c1450Mirour Saluacioun 580 The malison of oure for-modere shuld torne to benedictionne. 1583Leg. Bp. St. Androis 283 Scho endit, And left hir malisone, consider, To Lowrie, and the land together. 1586Durham Depos. (Surtees) 319 He answered, God's malison light on him, for he haith beggered me. 1691Ray Coll. Words, Gloss. Northanhymb. 146 Mallison, q.d. Malediction, v. Bennison. 1721Ramsay Lucky Spence xvi, My malison light..On them that drink and dinna pay. 1808Scott Marm. v. xxv, A minstrel's malison is said. 1861Goldw. Smith Irish Hist. 43 Their malison was almost as terrible as the curse of a priest. 1865Kingsley Herew. xiii, Farewell, and my malison abide with thee!
†2. The state or condition of being cursed. Obs.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xliii. (Cecile) 277 Sa man, þat ves in malysone, mycht þar chese lestand benysone.
3. dial. A plague, torment. Also with n. prefixed, as cat-malison (see cat n. 18), horse-malison one who is cruel to horses. (See E.D.D.)
▪ II. † malison, v. Sc. Obs.|ˈmælɪsən|
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To curse; to pronounce a malediction upon.
1588A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. in Cath. Tract. (S.T.S.) 215 To malesone any, by geuing thame to the deuil, in visching thame sicknes, deathe or any euill. 1675in Edgar Old Ch. Life Scotl. (1885) 273 note, [A woman confessed that she] malinsount [another woman]. |