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malˈpractice
[f. mal- + practice.]
1. Law.
a. Improper treatment or culpable neglect of a patient by the physician.
1671Maynwaring Anc. & Mod. Pract. Phys. 20 Well then, you Prescriber in the mode of male-Practice. 1694W. Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1713) 252/1, I give this Relation..to convince..those Homicides [Pretenders to Physick] of their Barbarity and Mal-Practice. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) II. lxx. 250 The malpractice of a surgeon. 1816A. C. Hutchison Pract. Obs. Surg. (1826) 181 This boy is dangerously ill, and likely to die, in consequence of such malpractice. 1863Holland Lett. Joneses xx. 286 A professional brother, prosecuted for malpractice, is always sure you will do what you can to clear him.
b. Illegal action by which a person seeks to benefit himself at the cost of others, while in a position of trust.
1758Ann. Reg. 85 He was charged for male-practices in the management of his command abroad. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. 408 King Edward..found it necessary..to prosecute his judges for their corruption and other mal-practices. 1773Gentl. Mag. XLIII. 199 Charges of extortion, and other mal-practices, had been brought against a British subject. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xv. III. 528 The mal⁓practices, which had done more than the exhalations of the marshes of Dundalk to destroy the efficiency of the English troops, were [etc.]. 1895Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 717 Malpractices begin with the prospectus and continue till liquidation.
2. gen. A criminal or overtly mischievous action; wrong-doing, misconduct.
1772–84Cook's Voy. (1790) I. 136 When another canoe was struck for their mal-practices, the natives behaved in the same manner. 1812Chron. in Ann. Reg. 19 The outrages..have assumed a more decided character than at any period since the commencement of the malpractises. 1848Clough Amours de Voy. ii. 273, I tremble for something factitious, Some malpractice of heart and illegitimate process. 1851Thackeray Kickleburys on Rhine (ed. 2) 73 Fanny was almost ready to tell fibs to screen her brother's malpractices from her mamma. 1884J. Colborne Hicks Pasha 79 We took pains..to correct the malpractice of the men. |