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malefic, a. and n.|məˈlɛfɪk|
Also 7, 9 malefick, 7 malefique.
[ad. L. malefic-us (also malificus), f. male ill + -ficus: see -fic. Cf. F. maléfique, Sp. maléfico, Pg., It. malefico.]
A. adj. Productive of disaster or evil; baleful in effect or purpose. Said esp. of stellar influences and magical arts or practices.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 263 Neither could the malefick starres impell the Brachmans to malefice or malefacture. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies iii. i. 388 We shall point out..Constellations..that are Malefique. 1796H. Hunter tr. St.-Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) I. 584 Whether the embryons of their fruits do not disclose..harsh oppositions, which give warning of their malefic characters. 1809A. Henry Trav. 124 A man who charged him with having brought his brother to death by malefic arts. 1841Borrow Zincali I. viii. i. 145 Practices equally malefic as the crime imputed to them. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 105 The slackness of certain periodic trades..[and] want of employment..have a doubly malefic effect. 1879Farrar St. Paul I. 385 It belonged to the malefic arts of which they may well have heard from Roman visitors.
B. n.
a. Astrol. A malefic aspect or body.
†b. One who practices malefic arts; a malign wizard. Obs.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 139 A conjunction of all the maleficks that are named in their [planetarians] art. Ibid. 174 Most arrant inchanters, sorcerers, veneficks, maleficks, wizzards, and witches in the world. 1819J. Wilson Dict. Astrol., Malefics, doers of evil: Saturn and Mars. Ibid., A retrograde malefic would be rendered by it [sc. retrogradation] more innoxious.
Hence † maˈleficness.
1727Bailey vol. II, Malefickness, injuriousness. |