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单词 maldisant
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maldisantn.

Forms: 1500s maledizant, 1600s maldisant.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French maldisant.
Etymology: < Middle French maldisant evil-speaker (Palsgrave 1530), use as noun of present participle of maldire , maudire to speak evil < classical Latin maledīcere (see malediction n.). Compare maledicent adj.Compare earlier use as a name, the damesell Maledysaunte, in Malory Morte Darthur (a1470). Compare also isolated attestation of maudisour in sense ‘slanderer’ ( < Middle French maudiseur):a1500 Alexander-Cassamus (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Munich) (1911) 434 W[h]en othir men wake, hym were ned to wynke, Lest that with hym mete the false mawdysour.
Obsolete.
An evil-speaker, a slanderer.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > [noun] > one who slanders
missayer1340
slandererc1340
jurorc1380
third tonguea1382
defamerc1425
malignerc1425
disclanderer1447
praterc1500
evil-sayer1530
ill sayera1533
infamera1533
belier1541
sycophant1548
calumniatorc1550
disgracer1570
infamator1571
depraver1584
calumnier1586
libeller1589
infamizer1593
maldisant1598
oblocutor1603
traducer1603
villainizer1605
vilifier1611
calumner1614
scandallerc1620
scandalizer1632
blackmouth1642
deflowerer1645
famer1646
defamator1658
reflector1681
reflecter1686
asperser1702
bedirtera1742
libellist1794
mud-flinger1839
denigrator1875
mud-slinger1876
tar-brusher1884
libellant-
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes He is to blame..that will be wittie in another mans booke. How then will scoffing readers scape this marke of a maledizant?
1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas (at cited word) A Maldisant or euill speaker.
1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) Maldisant, an evil speaker, a backbiter.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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