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maladive, a.|ˈmælədɪv|
Also 5 -if.
[a. F. maladif, -ive, f. malade: see malady.]
Of, pertaining to, or affected with sickness, sickly. Cf. maladif a.
1481Botoner Tulle on Old Age (Caxton) C j, They haue their bodyes seke & maladif. 1605Daniel Queen's Arcadia i. i. (1606) B, Our holesome climate growne more maladiue. 1865Argosy I. 33 He can confound nervousness with indigestion, and make it odious by maladive associations innumerable. 1879Farrar St. Paul II. 216 note, The Arminian [theory], which regards hereditary corruption not as sin or guilt, but as infirmity, a maladive condition. 1907R. Brooke Let. Oct. (1968) 112 Lippo Lippi's girl-Madonna's, with the maladive sensuality of their tired faces. 1940Horizon Mar. 171 There is the road to Newchurch-on-Arrow, up which Kilvert..used to stride to see his sweet but maladive Emmeline. 1953Economist 6 June 641 The most dangerous trend in post-war Britain..the tendency..to indulge in maladive self-attention. |