malicen.
/ˈmalᵻs/, U.S. /ˈmæləs/ I. Malicious intent.
1. † b. personified. Obsolete.† c. Anger. Obsolete. rare.
a. The intention or desire to do evil or cause injury to another person; active ill will or hatred. In later use also in weakened sense: mischievous intent, the desire to discomfort.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > spitefulness > feeling of spite > [noun]
ondeeOE
teenOE
envyc1300
malicea1325
eftc1325
maugrec1330
spitec1330
malignec1475
wrokea1500
doggedness1530
despitefulness1535
cankeredness1538
venomy1548
livor1589
doggishness1622
viperousness1651
Schadenfreude1895
bitchery1936
the mind > emotion > hatred > [noun] > fierce or virulent hatred > active hatred
malicea1325
feuda1400
mavite1487
a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) v. 14 Ant ȝif hoe þoru malice of hoemsulf, oþer þoru wikked conseil, nellez noȝt ben imaried þoru hoere chef lord þerease a neren noȝt desparaged [etc.].
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 12027 He ne dude it vor non vuel ne malice.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. 605 He that was a Lomb beforn Is thanne a Wolf, and thus malice Under the colour of justice Is hid.
c1460 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 782 (MED) The wolff of malys..Vpon the lamb compleyned, ageyn resoun.
1477 in J. Raine Vol. Eng. Misc. N. Counties Eng. (1890) 35 (MED) John Colyn was notyd and diffamyd..be veray malesse.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 199 A refing sonne off rakyng Muris Hes magellit my making throw his malis.
1601 Bp. W. Barlow Serm. Paules Crosse Martij 1600 Pref. 7 Malice marres logike and charitie both.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iii. ii. 23 God forbid any Malice should preuayle. View more context for this quotation
1691 J. Hartcliffe Treat. Virtues 381 When we think of..the malice of our Spiritual Adversaries; we are apt to despond.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xix. 132 He furnished the malice of his enemies with the arms of truth.
1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 106 The slanders..may be the implements, not the inventions, of Malice.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. ix. 495 Then the archbishop, with that gentle and temperate malice which inflicts the deepest wounds, said [etc.].
1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 5 The rank vocabulary of malice and hate.
1938 R. G. Collingwood Princ. Art v. 87 Malice, the desire that others, especially those better than ourselves, should suffer, is a perpetual source of pleasure to man; but it takes different shapes.
1983 S. Cooper Seaward vi. 43 There was a hint of malice in the smile that made Cally uneasy.
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c1475 Wisdom (Folger) (1969) 694 (MED) Let se cum in Indignacyon and Sturdynes, Males also and Hastynes.
a1594 Edmond Ironside (1991) iv. i. 104 Remember this, malice hath a perfect memory.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. v. 177 Yet (by the verie phangs of malice, I sweare) I am not that I play. View more context for this quotation
1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 169 The blot For ev'ry dart that malice ever shot.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > anger > [noun]
irrec825
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angera1325
gremth1340
iroura1380
brethc1380
couragec1386
heavinessc1386
felona1400
follya1400
wrathnessc1440
choler1530
blast1535
malice1538
excandescency1604
stomachosity1656
bad blood1664
corruption1799
needle1874
irateness1961
1538 J. Bale God's Promises in I. Reed Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Plays (1780) I. 19 Tell me, blessed Lorde, where wyll thy great malyce light.
d. figurative. (Attributed to fortune, or impersonal agencies.)
ΚΠ
1650 Beware Beare 13 Rosina and her Hostesse, by this time, had sufficiently execrated the Malice of Fortune, together with the Beareward.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 268 Often exposed to the malice of weather, but more to the malice of men.
1740 H. Fielding Tom Jones viii The utmost malice of Fortune could, indeed, have contrived nothing so cruel, so mal-a-propos.
1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. ii. 61 He..defied the utmost malice of future fortune.
1849 T. De Quincey Vision Sudden Death in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 751/2 The deeps opened ahead in malice to receive her.
1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee ix. 111 If by malice of fate he knew the one particular anecdote which I..most hated and most loathed.., he had at least spared it me.
a1941 V. Woolf Summing Up in Haunted House (1967) 139 By some malice of fate she was unable to join, but she could sit and praise while Bertram chattered on, he being among the voyagers.
1982 ‘E. Peters’ Virgin in Ice ii. 24 He hunched his back solidly against the malice of the wind.
2. Law. Esp. in malice aforethought (see aforethought adj.) and, formerly, in malice prepense (see prepense adj.): (a) wrongful intention generally; (b) the state of mind required for a person to be found guilty of certain criminal offences (esp. of murder); (c) the state of mind required for a person to be made liable for certain torts.The meanings mentioned under senses 2(b) and 2(c) were originally expressed by the Anglo-Norman phrase malice purpensé or malice prepensé, which in modern legal language appears in the translated form malice aforethought. In early use the phrase occurs in many Anglicized forms: malice prepensed, malice purpensed, malice pretensed (also prepensed malice, etc.); occasional variants found in non-technical writers are malice propense (17th cent.), malice prepensive (Fielding), malice perpended (Charles Lamb). For examples see the various adjectives.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > criminal intent
purpensed malice1436
malice1454
malice prepensed1454
pretenced malice1483
scienter1618
malice prepense1647
malice propense1650
mala fides1693
malice prepended1833
mens rea1861
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > spite, malice > [noun] > premeditated
purpensed malice1436
malice1454
malice prepensed1454
pretenced malice1483
malice prepense1647
malice propense1650
malice prepended1833
1454 Petition W. Ingham in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 86 Oone Thomas Denyes, of ful grete malice prepensed..jmagynyng vtterly to destroye youre seyde besecher, contryved a lettre in þe name of my lorde of Oxenforde.
1472–3 Rolls of Parl. VI. 38 Robert Farnell..of malice afore thought..lay in awayte to slee and murther the said Richard Williamson.
1538 A. Fitzherbert Newe Bk. Justyces Peas 106 b Mourdour, by chaunce medley, and not of malyce pourpensed.
1547 Act 1 Edw. VI c. 12 §9 No parsone..convicted of murder of malyse prepensed.
1547 Act 1 Edw. VI c. 12 §9 Or shall stande willfullie or of malyce muett.
1588 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (new ed.) ii. vii. 241 If two (of malice forethought) lie in await the one to kill the other.
a1625 H. Finch Law (1636) 215 Murder is Man-slaughter upon former malice: which wee call prepensed malice.
1670–1 Act 22 & 23 Chas. II c. 1 §6 If any person..on purpose and of malice forethought..shall [etc.].
1716 W. Hawkins Pleas Crown i. 88 The Murther of a Person by one who was his Servant, upon Malice conceived during the Service.
1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. xiv. 202 The benefit of clergy is taken away from murder through malice prepense.
1817 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 997 To support this action, malice..must be alleged and proved.
1825 Justice Bayley in R. V. Barnewall & C. Cresswell Rep. Cases King's Bench IV. 255 Malice in common acceptation means ill-will against a person, but in its legal sense it means a wrongful act done intentionally without just cause or excuse.
1871 W. Markby Elem. Law (1874) §226 In the best known definitions of malice it is scarcely distinguishable from intention.
1898 W. F. Craies in Encycl. Laws Eng. VIII. 77 The meaning of the term malice (malitia) in English law has been a question of much difficulty and controversy... It certainly has different meanings with respect to responsibility for civil wrongs and responsibility for crime.
1901 F. Pollock Law of Torts (ed. 6) 24 Such abuse [of privilege allowed by law on special occasions and for special purposes, where the act is done not in good faith or for the advancement of justice, but from evil motives such as personal enmity] is called ‘malice’ or ‘express malice’, and deprives the act of justification.
1952 C. S. Kenny Outlines Crim. Law 186 In any statutory definition of a crime, ‘malice’ must be taken..as requiring either (1) an actual intention to do the particular kind of harm that was in fact done; or (2) recklessness as to whether such harm should occur or not... It is neither limited to nor does it indeed require any ill will towards the person injured.
1995 Times 21 Feb. 31/2 His other claims for malicious falsehood and libel failed because he could not prove malice.
3. Malicious conduct; a malicious act or device. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > spitefulness > spiteful action > [noun] > instance of
thuckec1230
malicec1350
shrewd turn1464
serpentine?1510
pranka1529
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > spite, malice > [noun] > active > instance of
thuckec1230
malicec1350
shrewd turn1464
serpentine?1510
pranka1529
c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 144 (MED) Þat oþer reyson was for þe deuel, Þat he schal to mys wende hys cheuel Þorȝ hys malyce.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 3439 (MED) A thousendfold welmore he soghte Thanne afterward to do malice.
a1450 York Plays (1885) 137 Herowde the kyng has malise ment.
1454 T. Denys in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 85 Thes vengeable malices don to hir and me.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ix. l. 690 He..now agayn begynnys a malice new.
a1500 Story of Alexander 279 (MED) I hate frawdez & maleces.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. ii. 32 To report otherwise, were a Mallice, that..would plucke..rebuke from euery Eare that heard it. View more context for this quotation
1669 R. Montagu in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 449 The French look upon this as an art and malice of the Spaniard to destroy the trade.
4.
a. Power to harm, harmfulness; harmful action or effect. Of a disease, a poison, etc.: virulence. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] > quality
loathnessc1175
grievousness1303
malicea1382
noyfulnessa1398
mischievousness1567
harmfulnessa1586
balefulness1590
illnessc1595
hurt1608
hurtfulness1611
mischief1646
noxiousness1655
deleteriousness1758
maleficence1796
vice1837
bale-fire1855
disutility1879
nocuousness1894
disvalue1925
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] > quality > extreme
balea1000
malicea1382
deadlinessc1450
fatality1490
maliciousness1555
virulency1651
fatalness1652
contagium1654
virulentness1727
outrage1735
virulence1748
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > harm or injury > [noun] > in effect
malicea1382
ill effect1675
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [noun] > degree of intensity > violence or severity
malicea1382
vehemency?1541
malignity1543
acutenessa1644
virulency1651
malignancy1693
virulence1748
severity1808
acuity1839
fulminancy1887
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xlvii. 10 And trost thou haddest in thi malice and seidist, ‘Ther is not that see me.’
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 339 Venym and poysoun..leseþ his malys anon.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 3018 (MED) Sche to hym toke a medecyne..Þat was more..precious þan bame Ageyn þe malis of euery fire and flame.
c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 112v (MED) Þe disposicioun of þe Cankre is myche more worse, and þe malice is more encresid þan it was aforn.
a1500 (?c1378) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 457 Neþer þe word of þer prelat ne þe word of þer somenour han so myche maliss wiþ hem þat [etc.].
1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. O iv b Suche wyne doth alay the malice of ye meate.
1544 Bk. Chyldren in T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe (new ed.) sig. ev It is a synguler remedy, to remooue the malyce [of a canker] in a shorte whyle.
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. i. 114 Myrrhe, whose smoke is so unholsome, that excepte thei withstode the malice therof with the perfume of styrax [etc.].
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. v. iii. §6. 440 The malice of a great Armie is broken..in a great siege.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 251 Our Cannons malice vainly shall be spent. View more context for this quotation
a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. v. §4. 242 The malice of the sicknesse surpassing all the helpe of the most approved medicines.
1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick iv. vii. 116 These Evacuations..come..from the malice of the matter of the Disease.
1685 J. Dryden Threnodia Augustalis v. 9 Undaunted Cæsar underwent The malice of their [sc. the physicians'] Art.
b. Astrology. The baleful influence of certain celestial objects. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > heavenly body > as influence on mankind > [noun] > influence > malign
malicea1398
starring1583
malevolent1651
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 112v Þe malice of a malicious sterre as j-tempered..by presence of a goodliche sterre.
c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 2590 The rede Mars was that tyme of the yeare So feble that his malyce is hym raft.
1568 T. Hill Proffitable Arte Gardening (rev. ed.) i. ix. f. 21 Through some malice of the celestiall bodies.
5. More generally: bad quality, badness; (chiefly in moral sense) wickedness; a wicked act. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > [noun]
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naughteOE
manOE
evilness1000
fakenOE
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lithera1225
villainy?c1225
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iniquity13..
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mauvasty1474
unkindliness1488
noughtinessa1500
perversenessa1500
illnessc1500
filthiness?1504
noisomeness1506
naughtiness?1529
noughtihoodc1540
inexcellence1590
improbity1593
flagition1598
meschancy1609
scelerateness1613
pravity1620
meschantnessa1630
flagitiousness1692
flagitiosity1727
nefariousness1727
bale-fire1855
ill-conditionedness1866
iniquitousness1870
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > malicious evil
malicea1382
mauvasty1474
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > spite, malice > [noun]
ondeeOE
evestOE
teenOE
hatingOE
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eftc1325
maugrec1330
spitec1330
malicea1382
despitec1400
unkindnessc1400
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wrokea1500
doggedness1530
despitefulness1535
cankeredness1538
venomy1548
livor1589
doggishness1622
viperousness1651
acid1768
Schadenfreude1895
bitchery1936
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. vi. 5 God, forsoþe, seeing þat mych malice of men was in þe erþ..it forþouȝt hym þat he had made man.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 1555 Mikel malice was first in man Bot neuer forwit sua mikel as þan.
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 264 The malice of that lond..That wyntir..may of dryue.
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 7v Make your children lerne goode in their youthe or they falle to malice.
c1480 (a1400) St. Katherine 74 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 444 Scho ȝed and sad..sir king, Resone requeris..þat þu knaw þi malyes & with-draw now sic seruice fra þis goddis fals, þat þe dissawis.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) v. 1 Halykirke..prayed to be departid fra the malice of the warld.
a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) i. Prol. 228 This sam buke eyk in mair hepit malyce..says playnly [etc.].
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. ij In a M. yeres he myght not comprise the malices of hi[r] yll customes.
1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits xv. 278 In man, there is no power which hath tokens or signes, to descry the goodnesse, or malice of his obiect.
1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah 19 When..they returned to their malice as a dog to his vomit, it [sc. Nineveh] was destroyed.
1613 I. F. Christes Bloodie Sweat sig. G1v Yet wee persist Too obstinate in malice, and forbeare Vpon his bleeding wounds to shed one teare.
1650 in A. Macdonald & J. Dennistoun Misc. Maitland Club (1840) II. 487 Doeth not somtymes a just mane perish in his rightiousnes, and a wicked man prosper in his mallice?
Phrases
to bear malice: to feel ill will (now usually on account of some injury). Chiefly with indirect object or against, to, toward(s).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > spite, malice > bear malice [verb (intransitive)]
spitc1386
malign?a1439
to bear malice1530
spitec1560
malice1587
to wish one at vinegar1774
bitch1915
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 450/1 I beare grutche or malyce agaynst a person, je porte malice.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cxij I haue tolde you..howe Duke George of Saxony, bare malice.
1572 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxxiii. 43 The malice greit, that ilk to vther beiris.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII ii. i. 63 The Law I beare no mallice for my death. View more context for this quotation
1687 S. Hill Catholic Balance 133 I bear malice to no Men or Party under Heaven.
a1710 R. Atkyns Parl. & Polit. Tracts (1734) 339 The Trapanner did bear a Spight and Malice against the Person trapanned.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Calderon iii I bear no malice to him for that, your highness.
1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. I. 15/2 I never bear malice toward those who try to reduce me to their own dimensions.
1875 Mrs. Randolph Wild Hyacinth I. 72 I believe you bear malice still.
1905 G. B. Shaw in Clarion 24 Mar. 5/3 He bore no malice whatever for the incident, and used to refer to it with the utmost good humor.
1959 P. H. Johnson Unspeakable Skipton (1961) 117 Mrs Jones called after Dorothy good-naturedly as she angrily withdrew; she did not appear to bear malice.
1989 S. Howell & R. Willis Societies at Peace (BNC) 74 The predatory spirits..are described as if they bore actual malice toward humans.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
† maliceadj.
Obsolete. rare.
a. Poisonous.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [adjective]
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atteryc1000
venomousc1330
atteringc1400
poisonous1425
venenousc1425
malice1447
toxicatec1475
poisonable?a1505
empoisoning1526
venomful1544
poisonful1547
poisoning1561
infectious1585
poisonsome1590
banefula1593
poisony1605
toxical1607
aconic1623
mephitic1623
intoxicative1632
venefic1646
toxic1664
venene1665
venenose1673
virose1680
mephitical1704
venefical1716
septinous1875
virific1885
nocuous1890
biocidal1932
1447 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) 18 (MED) Y enfourmed hym [of t]he grete malice venym that they have spatte to me.
b. Full of wrath or ill will.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > ill-will > [adjective]
hateleOE
swartOE
ill-willinga1300
illc1330
ill-willeda1340
evil-willya1382
hatefula1400
malignc1429
malicea1500
maltalentivea1500
ill-willy15..
malevolent1509
malevolous1531
ill asposit1535
ill-givena1568
stomaching1579
malignant1592
gall-ful1596
gall-wet1597
ill-affecteda1599
unpleasant1603
evil-affected1611
gallsome1633
ill-meaning1633
ill-natured1645
unbenign1651
sullen1676
unbenevolent1694
reptilian1855
unbenignant1856
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > ill will, malevolence > [adjective]
hateleOE
balefulOE
swartOE
hatelyOE
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illc1330
ill-willeda1340
evil-willya1382
hatefula1400
malignc1429
malicea1500
maltalentivea1500
malevolent1509
malevolous1531
fiendisha1535
ill asposit1535
ill-givena1568
malignant1592
ill-affecteda1599
unpleasant1603
manless?1609
evil-affected1611
ill-willy1611
ill-meaning1633
ill-natured1645
swarthy1651
unbenign1651
reptile1653
sullen1676
maligning1687
unbenevolent1694
reptilian1855
unbenignant1856
a1500 Partenay (Trin. Cambr.) 3446 So inly malice, full of wrath and yre.
a1500 Partenay (Trin. Cambr.) 3537 (MED) Raymounde malice And full angry was.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
malicev.
/ˈmalᵻs/, U.S. /ˈmæləs/ Now archaic and English regional (northern).† 1. transitive. To speak maliciously of, to malign. Obsolete.† 3. intransitive. To entertain malice. Also with at. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > slander or calumniate [verb (transitive)]
to say or speak shame of, on, byc950
teleeOE
sayOE
to speak evil (Old English be) ofc1000
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betell?c1225
missayc1225
skandera1300
disclanderc1300
wrenchc1300
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slanderc1340
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hinderc1375
backbite1382
blasphemec1386
afamec1390
fame1393
to blow up?a1400
defamea1400
noise1425
to say well (also evil, ill, etc.) of (also by)1445
malignc1450
to speak villainy of1470
infame1483
injury1484
painta1522
malicea1526
denigrate1526
disfamea1533
misreporta1535
sugill?1539
dishonest?c1550
calumniate1554
scandalize1566
ill1577
blaze1579
traduce1581
misspeak1582
blot1583
abuse1592
wronga1596
infamonize1598
vilify1598
injure?a1600
forspeak1601
libel1602
infamize1605
belibel1606
calumnize1606
besquirt1611
colly1615
scandala1616
bedirt1622
soil1641
disfigurea1643
sycophant1642
spatter1645
sugillate1647
bespattera1652
bedung1655
asperse1656
mischieve1656
opprobriatea1657
reflect1661
dehonestate1663
carbonify1792
defamate1810
mouth1810
foul-mouth1822
lynch1836
rot1890
calumny1895
ding1903
bad-talk1938
norate1938
bad-mouth1941
monster1967
a1526 J. Ede Let. (P.R.O. S.P. 3/3) f. 23 He..malyste yowr sayd tenant sayying to hym thiys wordes: [etc.].
1575 G. Gascoigne Posies sig. 99ivv The good writer shall be sure of some to be maliced: so the bad shall neuer escape the byting tongues.
1605 J. Marston Dutch Courtezan v. sig. G4v Ile gage my life that strumpet out of craft And some close second end hath malist him.
1670 in H. Paton Kingarth Parish Rec. (1932) 63 That Katrine N'Couage did..curse her sitting on her knees cursing and mallosing her.
2. transitive. To regard with malice; to bear malice towards; to seek or desire to injure.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > spitefulness > [verb (transitive)] > treat
malicea1547
spite1598
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > spite, malice > treat maliciously [verb (transitive)]
malicea1547
spite1581
spite1598
bitch1764
to get or have one's knife into1890
a1547 Earl of Surrey Poems (1964) 11 ‘Thou blinded god,’ quod I, ‘forgeve me this offense. Unwittingly I went about to malice thy pretense.’
1552 H. Latimer Serm. 3rd Sunday Epiph. (1584) 314 They would not beleue in hym, but despised and maliced him.
1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor v. iii. sig. Rii I am so farre from malicing their states, That I begin to pittie 'hem. View more context for this quotation
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xlii. xv. 1124 But above all other he maliced Eumenes most [L. Eumeni ante omnes infestus erat].
1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 183 At last his sister grew to malice his respect to me.
1653 R. Baxter Christian Concord 47 I know they will malice our Union in this Country.
1659 T. Fuller Appeal Iniured Innocence i. 10 For the Papists, though I malice not their Persons,..yet I do..dislike their Errors.
1686 W. de Britaine Humane Prudence (ed. 3) xvii. 80 None are less Maliced or more applauded than he, who is thought rather happy than able.
1694 E. Elys in H. More Lett. on Several Subj. 94 To have an Aversion to the Notion..is to Malice or Hate God.
1829 J. Clare Lett. (1985) 486 Whoever may have cause to malice you..I know not.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (at cited word) They say he maliced him for years.
1905 R. Garnett William Shakespeare Pedagogue & Poacher 68 Sir Thomas maliceth Shakespeare, and shall regard you the more favourably if you do him to wit that you malice Shakespeare also.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 372 The other all this while pricked forward with their jibes wherewith they did malice him.
1981 T. D. Rhone Old Story Time 16 Plenty a them right here, smile up with me to mi face, but in they heart they malice me off.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > spitefulness > [verb (intransitive)] > entertain malice
malice1587
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > spite, malice > bear malice [verb (intransitive)]
spitc1386
malign?a1439
to bear malice1530
spitec1560
malice1587
to wish one at vinegar1774
bitch1915
1587 G. Turberville Tragicall Tales f. 122v Yet fortune seemde to grutche And malice at her featurd shape.
1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. iii. sig. E My guiltles death will be aueng'd on thee,..that hath malisde thus.
Derivatives
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > spitefulness > [adjective]
teenfulOE
atteryc1175
ondfula1200
maliciousa1250
doggedc1300
enviousc1330
venoma1350
spitous?a1366
despitousc1374
heinous?a1400
venomyc1400
sinister1411
sputousc1420
doggish?a1425
cankered?a1439
doggya1450
sinistrous1460
spity1481
despiteful1488
spiteful1490
despiteous?1510
viperious?1510
peevisha1522
maliceful1522
envyful1530
viperinec1540
viperous?1542
vipered1560
uncanny1596
dogged-sprighted1600
maliced1602
ill-minded1611
virulent1613
ill-hearteda1617
doleful1617
spitish1627
splenial1641
litherlya1643
venomsome1660
slim1674
viper1721
vipereal1750
viperish1755
vicious1825
waspish1855
viperian1866
viperan1877
cattish1883
catty1886
bitchy1928
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > spite, malice > [adjective]
loathOE
teenfulOE
nithefulOE
ondfula1200
maliciousa1250
doggedc1300
enviousc1330
venomousa1340
venoma1350
spitous?a1366
despitousc1374
heinous?a1400
unkindlya1400
venomyc1400
sinister1411
sputousc1420
doggish?a1425
cankered?a1439
doggya1450
sinistrous1460
spity1481
despiteful1488
spiteful1490
despiteous?1510
viperious?1510
peevisha1522
envyful1530
viperous1535
viperinec1540
vipered1560
bad-minded1588
uncanny1596
dogged-sprighted1600
toothsome1601
maliced1602
ill-minded1611
virulent1613
ill-hearteda1617
doleful1617
spitish1627
ill-meaning1633
splenial1641
litherlya1643
venomsome1660
slim1668
cat-witted1672
vipereal1750
viperish1755
méchant1813
vicious1825
maliceful1840
mean1841
waspish1855
viperian1866
viperan1877
cattish1883
catty1886
bad mind1904
bitchy1908
1602 B. Jonson Poetaster Induct. sig. A2 Your forc't stings Would hide them selues within his malic't sides. View more context for this quotation
1643 A. Wilson Five Yeares King Iames 73 It concerneth not onely the destruction of the maliced man, but of every man.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > spitefulness > spiteful action > [noun]
spitinga1500
malicing1604
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > spite, malice > [noun] > active
spitinga1500
malicing1604
bitching1962
1604 S. Daniel Funerall Poeme Earle of Devonshyre Without any private malicing, Or public grievance.
a1640 W. Fenner Sacrifice of Faithful (1648) 50 Goe on in drinking, whoring,..and dicing, hating and malicing, fretting and chafing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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