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† ˈmaltalent Obs.
Forms: 4–5 mautalent, 5 mautelent; 5–6 matalent, 5 matelent, 6 matilent, matulat; 5 maltalente, 5–7 maletalent, (5 male talente, 6 Sc. mailtalent), 4–7 (9 arch.) maltalent.
[a. OF. maltalent (maut-, mat-), f. mal evil (see mal-) + talent disposition, temper (see talent).]
Ill-will, malevolence.
c1320Sir Beues (MS. A) 3978 Sire Beues þo, veraiment For-ȝaf him alle is mautalent. 13..K. Alis. 906 To his ost sone he went, Ful of ire and maltalent. c1440Partonope 4499 That my lady hath hyr maletalent Me forgyfen. c1450Merlin 339 The Geaunte..gnasshed his teth and rolled his iyen, that were grete swollen for ire and mautelent [printed mantelent] that he had. c1470Henry Wallace iv. 465 Vpon the hed him straik in matelent. 1481Caxton Godfrey clxxviii. 262 And how they pardonned eche other theyr mal talentes and euyll wylles. 1513Douglas æneis i. i. (title), Junois wraith and mailtalent. 1560Rolland Crt. Venus ii. 332 Thay grew in matilent. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. iv. 61 With heavy look, and lumpish pace, that plaine In him bewraid great grudge and maltalent. a1648Ld. Herbert Hen. VIII (1683) 103 But not on this part only did the French shew their Mal-Talent. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Jas. I Wks. (1711) 14 He had ever a male⁓talent against the king since the adjudging of the earldom of Strathern from his nephew Miles. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xii. That is the lot of them that the Black Douglas bears mal-talent against.
¶b. As adj. Ill-tempered.
a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 43 King Harrie brunt as fyre and grew so matulat in anger that [etc.]. |