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▪ I. † maleficiate, ppl. a. Obs.
[a. med.L. maleficiāt-us, pa. pple. of maleficiāre: see next.]
Bewitched; spec. rendered impotent by spells.
a1613Overbury A Wife, etc. (1638) 317 This cures the Maleficiate. 1626Rawley in Bacon's Sylva To Rdr., Mens mindes, being bound; and (as it were) Maleficiate, by the Charmes of deceiuing Notions and Theories. 1649J. H. Motion to Parl. Adv. Learn. 4 You being loosed from those charmes wherewith you..were maleficiate, began to act powerfully. 1653R. Sanders Physiogn. 171 Unable for Venery, cold and maleficiate as to generation.
▪ II. † maleˈficiate, v. Obs.
[f. med.L. maleficiāt-, ppl. stem of maleficiāre, f. L. malefici-um malefice.]
trans. To bewitch; spec. to render impotent by spells. Hence † maleficiated ppl. a., † maleficiating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. iii. i. ii, A third..fears all old women as witches,..every person comes near him is maleficiated. 1626Bacon Sylva §888 marg., Experiment Solitary touching Maleficiating. 1646Gaule Cases Consc. 174 Not only in regard of their Maleficiating mischiefes, but also of Gods judgments. 1651Biggs New Disp. 179 To maleficiate a humor in any part of the Head. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xxxi. 257 Drugs..which make the Taker cold, maleficiated. |