malefice

See also: maléfice

English

Etymology

From Latin maleficium: compare French maléfice. See malefactor.

Noun

malefice (plural malefices)

  1. (obsolete) An evil deed; artifice; enchantment.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for malefice in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Adjective

malefice

  1. vocative masculine singular of maleficus

References
  • malefice in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • malefice in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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