Middle English Dictionary Entry
malī̆ce n.
Entry Info
| Forms | malī̆ce n. Also malis(e, malisce, malace, malece, males(e, malesse, maleice, maleis(e, (error) malyhs; pl. malices, etc. & males, malics. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Hatred, malice; also, personified; (b) in a weaker sense: ill will; (c) malicious nature; (d) malicious action(s, malicious conduct, hostile act(s; don ~, to do injury or harm; (e) cruel words, harsh criticism; ~ of the mouth, hateful speech; (f) severity in punishing; harshness in taxation.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Kings 20.7 : If forsoþe he were wroth, wite þou þat fulfild is þe malice [L malitia] of hym.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Kings 20.13 : If forsoþe þe malice of my fader dwelle stedefastli aȝenst þee, I schal telle þyn ere.
- (1384) Appeal Usk in Bk.Lond.E.26/116 : Vnder colour ther-of, shulde haue be broght a-boute mochel of the euel menyng..only for malice, to put ovte of the town al the worthiest.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)1.605 : And he that was a Lomb beforn Is thanne a Wolf, and thus malice Under the colour of justice Is hid.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Cl.(Manly-Rickert)E.692 : He wolde haue wend that of som subtiltee And of malice [vrr. maleys, Males] or of cruel corage That she hadde suffred this with sad visage.
- c1400 Bible SNT(1) (Selw 108 L.1)Eph.4.31 : Eferych bitternesse & wraþþe & indygnacyoun & cryynge & blasphemye be don a-wey from ȝou, & eferyche malice, & be ȝe benygne eferychone to oþer.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)5.716 : But now, of malys, hatrede, & envie..þe Grekes contrived han of newe An hiȝe tresoun.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)1008 : And of malice, they trad hem vnder fote.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)273 : And sore abieth she everydell Hir malice and hir maltalent.
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)328/18 : Not þat I schal make in hem malyce of yuel wille, þat doon yuel and wrong.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)6.3065 : Poweer of oon litil may auaile, Namli whan falsheed, of malis & of pride, Ageyn trouthe dar the bront abide.
- (1440) *Capgr.St.Norb.(Hnt HM 55)572 : I bidde þe þat þou swage All þi malyce and thi bittyr corage.
- c1440(?a1375) Abbey HG (Thrn)61/18 : Thiese foure doghetirs þan hase þe tyraunt..for euyll will & malese done in this holy Abbaye.
- c1440(?a1400) ?Nassyngton Trin.& U.(Thrn)311 : Thurghe myn awen malece, as I ware wode, Full ofte sythes hafe I don þe one þe rude.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.MRose (Hrl 2255)35 : The wolff of malys..Vpon the lamb compleyned, ageyn resoun.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)3809 : Duke Nestor..was..Meke of his maners, malise to pese.
- c1450(?c1400) 3 KCol.(1) (Cmb Ee.4.32)84/1 : Of grete enuye and malice, he pursued aftir hem.
- c1450 Jacob's W.(Sal 103)90/30 : He..schewyth out..þe malyce of his herte to angryn his brother.
- (1461) RParl.5.466b : And not therwith content, of their insaciable malice, after that they were dede, made theym to be heded..the seid Usurpour Henry..brake the seid Convencion..and departed therfro of wilfull malice.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)1171/15 : Therefore the kyng woll, in thys hete and malice, jouge the quene unto brennyng.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)14994 : And, for hyr-sylff may nat fulfylle Al hyr malys at hyr wylle..ffyrst to scole she sette one.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)15525 : They durste nat abyde But off maalys cryede out And on me gan make a shout.
- c1475 Wisd.(Folg V.a.354)694 : Let se cum in Indignacyon and Sturdynes, Males also and Hastynes.
- (1477) Doc.in Sur.Soc.8535 : John Colyn was notyd and diffamyd..be veray malesse.
- a1500(1465) Leversedge Vision (Add 34193)29 : The seid fendis..cried out on that blisid lady as wod creatures, fulfilled with greet ire and males and enuy.
- a1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)3110 : Gentilnesse þanne is powere..And in coostes haþ to defende Þat him of malys wolde shende.
b
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)12027 : Mid him viue & tuenti kniȝtes þun oþ suore þer Þat he ne dude it vor non vuel ne malice..Ne in no despit of þe king.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Cl.(Manly-Rickert)E.1045 : Walter saw hir pacience, Hir glade cheere, and no malice [vrr. maleyce, malece] at al.
- a1450(?1404) As þe see (Dgb 102)94 : Whan falsed lawheþ, he forgeþ gyle; Half in malice is his play.
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- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)26/14 : And þanne sseweþ hy þe kueades þet were y-hole..ine þe herte; þet is to wytene, prede, auarice, malice.
- c1350 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Hrl 874)p.117 : Þat þe corne is al ripe bitokneþ þat þe cruelte & þe malice of wicked Men is heiȝed fer ynouȝ.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.363 : O feyned womman, al that may confounde Vertu and innocence, thurgh thy malice [vr. maleyce] Is bred in thee, as nest of euery vice.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.939 : The heyeste and aboven alle Stant that planete..Saturnus..and his condicion Causeth malice and crualte To him the whos nativite Is set under his governance.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Mch.(Manly-Rickert)E.1222 : What sholde I yow reherce in special Hir hye malice? She is a shrewe at al.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)1.119 : Þei growiden ever in malice til þei hadden killid Crist.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)4.2449-50 : What malis may, yif it be declared, Vnto the malis of wommen be compared?
d
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)144/429 : Þat oþer reyson was for þe deuel, Þat he schal to mys wende hys cheuel Þorȝ hys malyce [rime: blysse].
- c1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)10.2 : Hij diȝted her malices [vr. males] in hardnesse.
- c1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)63.9 : Alle gode men þat sehen hem in her malices [vr. malesses] weren trubled.
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)2640 : For him was þe werwolf so wickedli for-schaped þurth malice of his stepmoder.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Kings 25.17 : Behold & bethenk what þou do, for determyned is þe malice aȝenst þi man & aȝenst þi hous.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)4.227 : Tullius hadde..i-kept Octovianus in his ȝowþe aȝenst þe malys of Antonius.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.3439 : A thousendfold welmore he soghte Thanne afterward to do malice.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)179a/b : She fleighe þe malice of here stepdame.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.4907 : Þe kyng cast & wolde saie Shape a wei her malis to with-stonde.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)1273 : He is brother sclowe..Al be that he to hym no malys mente.
- (1424) Let.War France in Bk.Lond.E.(Gldh LetBk I & K)89/19 : He wil nat suffre hym in no wise to be Iniuried be malice or circumvencion of his enemyes.
- a1425(a1400) PConsc.(Glb E.9 & Hrl 4196)4186 : Anticrist, als nedder, sal..sla þam thurgh þe venym Of þe malice þat sal cum of hym.
- (c1426) Paston2.13 : The forgeers and makers of the seyd billes imagyned to the seyd William..more malice and harm than in the seyd billes was expressed.
- (1436) Doc.Trade in BRS 766 : John Trokmerton..vitailed oute apon werre a ship and a balynger..for the save garde of the See and forto withstand the malice of the kynges enmys.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)3.2129 : But than, alas, his lefft hand off thei smette! Yit maugre them, whan he ther malice seeth..The shipp he heeld stille with his teeth.
- c1440 PLAlex.(Thrn)42/27,30 : We [may] na lengare suffre his mawgree, ne his malece bere..we be-seke ȝour benyngne maiestee þat ȝe will..swilke socoure vouchsaffe to send vs þat we put off..þe malice of oure fore-said enemys.
- a1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)137/317 : Herowde the kyng has malise ment And shappis..yow for to shende.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)10417 : King Menon to mare with Malys he þoght.
- c1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)12556 : And bot I gladly with hym go, A gayns me wyll he malyce meue.
- c1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)15450 : Sum of his frendes fast con hym meyne, and sum to malyce wold hym moue.
- c1450 Ponthus (Dgb 185)129/22 : Then he bethoght hym of a grete malice.
- (1454) Paston2.304 : By thes vengeable malics don to hir and me.
- (1454) Paston2.305 : Suych malice haf I never herd of herbeforne.
- (1465) Paston (Gairdner)4.134 : The dayli contynewyng maleyse of youre insessiabyll enemyes, how they contryve and seke occacions.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)39/32 : We shall wage good knyghtes and withstonde the kynge Claudas hys malice.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)1055/30 : I truste to God I shall be able to withstonde youre malyce.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)99/45 : Hese grete males, good lord, repelle.
- ?a1475(a1396) *Hilton SP (Hrl 6579)1.29.18a : He feliþ in herte, eiþer rehersende hiis synnes and his wrecchednesses ore þe malice and þe sleiþes of þe enemy ore elles þe godnesse and þe merci of God.
- c1475 Remembryd by scriptures (Hrl 2251)17 : He fledde for the best and ther malice eschewed.
- a1500 Story Alex.(Dub 213)279/7 : I hate frawdez & maleces.
- c1500(1463) Ashby Pris.(Trin-C R.3.19)201 : Nay, bettyr ys sharp persecucion For thy synnes, offenses, and vyces, Kepyng pacience without malyces.
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- (c1391) Gower CA Suppl.(Bod 294)prol.62* : A gentil herte his tunge stilleth, That it malice non distilleth, But preyseth that is to be preised.
- 1447 Bokenham Sts.(Arun 327)199 : Wherfore, hyr malyhs to represse, My name I wil not here expresse.
- c1450 Jacob's W.(Sal 103)90/27 : Þe secunde degre of wretthe is in þe mowth, þat is, malyce of þe mowth.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)13.5 : Venome of snakis, that is, incorygible malice, vndire the lippes of thaim.
f
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)250 : Þer watz malys mercyles and mawgre much scheued, Þat watz for fylþe upon folde þat þe folk used.
- c1400(?c1380) Patience (Nero A.10)523 : For malyse is noȝ to mayntyne boute mercy with-inne.
- a1500 *Chartier Quad.(2) (Rwl A.338)53/16 : Take exsaumple of Kyng Roboam, which for the grette oppressions of his people wolde nat make lesse ne ceesse his malice ne vse the councell of olde, wise men.
2.
(a) Wickedness, sin; ?also, a sin [quot.: Wycl.Church]; withouten ~, innocent(ly; (b) in a weaker sense: bad intentions; (c) tendency to wickedness, sinful or wicked nature; heinousness of a vice; (d) wicked action(s or conduct; ~ doere, an evildoer; ~ doinge, wicked acts; (e) wordes of ~, wicked words.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Gen.6.5 : God, forsoþe, seeing þat mych malice [L malitia] of men was in þe erþ..it forþouȝt hym þat he had made man.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Wisd.4.12 : Vnstablenesse of coueiting ouerturneth wit withoute malice [L sensum sine malitia].
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Roy 1.B.6)Jas.1.21 : For which thing ȝe, castinge awey al vnclennesse and plente of malice..receyue ȝe the word insent.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.486 : Now hath malice two speces..hardnesse of herte in wikkednesse, or elles the flessh of man is so blynd that he considereth nat that he is in synne.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)12a/b : Also no malis wiþdrawith..þe wil of an angel from þe seruice of his creature.
- ?a1425(a1415) Wycl.Lantern (Hrl 2324)7/11 : Of þis synne al manere malice & wickidnes cacchiþ roote.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.6603 : Þei wer of malys Innocent.
- a1425(?c1384) Wycl.Church (Bod 788)341 : For as virtu is strengere if it be gedrid..so o malis is strenger whanne it is gederid in o persone.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Wisd.5.13 : We myȝten schewe no signe of vertu, but we weren wastid in oure malice [L malignitate].
- a1425 Dial.Reason & A.(Cmb Ii.6.39)21/4 : Ley not þi schuldres vnder þe ȝok of malice, & þenne is þi better þat is þi souȝle free.
- ?a1425 Orch.Syon (Hrl 3432)258/22 : For it is a synne þat is doon of her owne malice, and wiþ avisement.
- ?c1430(?1383) Wycl.Curse (Corp-C 296)292 : Þis wickid fame is put on Crist and his apostlis bi malece and for coveitise.
- (1434) Misyn ML (Corp-O 236)118/1 : All temptacion þou sall ouercom, & all malesse slek.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)75 : Ȝif ony tenementz ben divisyd to ony child with inne age, and the executours, be malice or by collusion, willen not preven the testament..thanne be the next freend of the child resceyved to make the sute.
- c1440 HBk.GDei (Thrn:Horstmann)313 : Mekill malece & syne leris ydilnes.
- c1450(1369) Chaucer BD (Benson-Robinson)794 : I tok hyt of so yong age That malyce hadde my corage Nat that tyme turned to nothyng.
- c1450(1369) Chaucer BD (Benson-Robinson)993 : She had a wyt..So hool enclyned to alle goode, That al hir wyt was set, by the rode, Withoute malyce, upon gladnesse.
- c1450(?a1422) Lydg.LOL (Dur-U Cosin V.2.16)2.914 : If that any be..That hath doute..Or ellis of malice or Inyquyte For to accuse the virgynyte of Marye, playnely this is my bone..That he of vengyaunce haue experyence.
- a1500(a1400) Ipom.(1) (Chet 8009)3678 : Curst pryde & wykkyd vysse, Woo worthe thy grette malesse!
- a1500 *Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)7/20 : The goode dedis and þe evile be sette like and no difference saue only that, by longe vsage, malice hath the gretter entre and the gretter boldenesse.
- a1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)3842 : But in wit wexe þei shal And in grete malice encrese withal.
b
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)3.1155 : She bar hym on honde That this was don of malice hire to fonde.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)161a/b : And ȝif a surgene traueil forto rote þe bocche & make it to ȝiff quyture, summe men wille seyen þat he doeþ þat of malice.
- c1430(c1395) Chaucer LGW Prol.(2) (Benson-Robinson)341,351 : He may translate a thyng in no malyce..he wrot the Rose and ek Crisseyde Of innocence and nyste what he seyde..He ne hath not don so grevously amys..As thogh that he of maleys wolde endyte.
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)42/34 : If þer be ought founden nought right..be it attornyd to myn vnconynge & vnwyt mor þan to my malyce.
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- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)2.290 : A tale..I thenke telle..To schewe proprely the vice Of this Envie, and the malice.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Sq.(Manly-Rickert)F.526 : Myn herte..Al innocent of his crowned malice..Graunted hym loue.
- c1400 *Bk.Mother (Bod 416)119/20 : Holi Writ seiþ: 'Þer is no malice aboue þe malice of wommen,' for womman is þe deuelis massanger, procuratour, maister, and modir.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)4.pr.3.104 : Wherfore, whan thei ben perverted and turned into malice, certes, thanne have thei forlorn the nature of mankynde.
- c1450(a1400) Orolog.Sap.(Dc 114)383/29 : Bow þe downe, I beseche þe, by compassyone to oure infirmites & consider þe malyce of the tyme þat now is.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)5.1 : Halykirke..prayed to be departid fra the malice of the warld.
d
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)1 Kings 12.25 : If ȝee ben stedefast in malice, & ȝee & ȝoure kyng togidere schul perschyn.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)2 Par.37.9 : Þou art lord alþer heiest vp on al erþe, longe abidynge & myche merciful & othenkinge vp on þe malices of men.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ps.9.36 : Tobroose þe arm of þe synnere & of þe malice doere [WB(2): yuel willid; L maligni].
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ps.34.17 : Lord..restore my soule fro þe malice doynge [WB(2): wickidnesse; L malignitate] of hem.
- c1400(?c1380) Patience (Nero A.10)70 : Hit arn so wykke þat in þat won dowellez, And her malys is so much, I may not abide, Bot venge me on her vilanye.
- (c1419) Let.in Ellis Orig.Let.ser.2.181 : He sent hem worde that rader he wolde be dede or he wolde susten hem in thare Malesse.
- (1423) Let.Bk.in Bk.Lond.E.(Gldh LetBk I & K)114/192 : If he knowe eny man vse eny vntrouthe of þe forseide malices..hym þat he knoweth so to practise in phisyk he shalle shewe with-out taryinge to þe Rectour of Medicyns.
- c1430(c1386) Chaucer LGW (Benson-Robinson)2307 : He..to the se hym broughte And turneth hom; no malyce he ne thoughte.
- (1435) Misyn FL (Corp-O 236)67/23 : And ill may trowe þat þai fro þer males [L malicia] may ryse.
- c1450(c1440) Scrope Othea (StJ-C H.5)98/29 : Hate Calcas & his fals deceites, Of whom þe infinite malicis Betraieth many reaumes expres.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.Letab.(Hrl 2255)264 : They gaff noon attendaunce To ther wrytyng..In ther malys they wer so obstynat.
- c1450(a1425) MOTest.(SeldSup 52)10967 : Hyr name was Iosabell..malyce to meue and mell, þat was hyr most desyre.
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- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Ps.140.4 : Bowe thou not doun my herte in to the woordis of malice [L verba malitiæ].
3.
(a) Harmful or dangerous quality; (b) poor quality; ~ of appetit, poor appetite, loss of appetite; ~ of breth (brethinge), inability to breathe properly, shortness of breath; (c) harmful or undesirable nature; (d) the virulence of a poison, disease, wound, an ulcer, etc.; poisonousness; malignancy; (e) power to injure or destroy; (f) baleful influence of a planet.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mat.6.34 : Therfore nyle ȝe be besie in to the morwe..sothely it sufficith to the day his malice [L malitia sua].
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)2.3171 : For as the water of a welle Of fyr abateth the malice, Riht so vertu fordoth the vice.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.3611 : He scholde into the mouthes throwen Of tho tweie Oxen that fyr blowen, Therof to stoppen the malice [rime: office].
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)259a/a : Some goodnesse and malice of maneres in bestes foloweþ goodnesse oþer malice of complexioun.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)343/34 : Summe ben brent..þat þe malice þerof schulde goon awei, as mirabolani.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.3018 : Sche to hym toke a medecyne..Þat was more..precious þan bame Ageyn þe malis of euery fire and flame.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)80b/b : Causez, forsoþ, coniuncte ar malicez of complexionz inducte in þe vlcerate particulez.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)378/34 : Þe firste causes ben..þe touchinge of leprouse men and malice of metes.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.264 : Thou must anoon on heruest plaunte or seede, The malice of that lond..That wyntir..may of dryue.
- ?c1450 Trivet Constance (Harv Eng.938)p.237 : Than the messanger arose from hys bed uppon the morow, all seke and euell at ease for the malyce and the fume of the drynke.
- a1500 Imit.Chr.(Dub 678)104/5 : Lete þe malice of þe day suffice to it.
b
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)25a/a : Causez of flegmon bene primitiue, as fallyng & smytyng and malice of gouernyng [Ch.(2): malyce of gouernaunce; L malicia regiminis].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)116a/b : Riȝt fatte men..ar disposed to apoplexie, paralisi, to betyng of þe herte, to diarie, to malice of breþing [Ch.(2): malice of þe breþe; L Malitie anhelitus].
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)58/6 : When þe pacientes felen þamself more heuy, and þer schewe malice of appetite..þan is þe flwyng ouer mych.
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- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)210a/a : To make a Wilde tree chaunge out of malice in to goodnes, place and trauaile in tylyynge helpeþ moche.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.2987 : But as þe þorn hid vnder þe rose, Whos malys ay dareth by þe rote.
d
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)1.339 : Venym and poysoun i-brouȝt þiderward..leseþ his malys [L malignitatis] anon.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)205a/b : Þe saphire..putteþ out þe might of ventosite and of malice of þat posteme.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)266a/a : Men seiþ þat, if a man seiþ in an asse eere þat he is y-smyte wiþ a scorpioun, anon þe malice [L malum] passeþ.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)292/31 : In þis maner he schal kepe him, þat þe malice of þe festre wexe nomore.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.3360 : Þer is a worme..And whan men wil of malis make him tame And his venym outerly represse, Þei take a squille, [etc.].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)28b/b : Anoþer maner when colre noȝt naturale..is made prassiue & eruginous, which bene in þe vttermost of malice.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)80b/a : Vlcere virulent, corrosyue, & ambulatif is said an vlcere which bi his malice & sharpnez in puttyng out virulence consumeþ the membre in mortifying & wasteþ it.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)142a/b : It is better to reciste þe malice of ane yuel aforne þat it falle, þen to hele it vppe when it is fallen.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)148a/b : Þou maye palen hem and remewe aweye þe stinche..wiþ deffensiues aboute þe place þat þe malice of þe fistule mowe disese þe lesse.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)177a/a : Resalgar is a manere of venimous spice of þe erþe..of þe whiche þe malice & þe venym is repressed in þis maner.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)148/26 : And leue it so open..til þat þe malice of þe sekenesse be passed.
- ?c1425 Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)510/9 : Be þere putte þe quantite of half a whete corne of powdred arsenyk, þe malice abated or alaied with iuses or with opium als mykel as of the arsenek.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)106b/b : It is a wounde þat þoruȝ his owne malice & his schrewid propirte..may not drawen to consolidacoun.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)112b/a : Þe disposicioun of þe Cankre is myche more worse, and þe malice is more encresid þan it was aforn.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)114b/b : Aftirward by processe sumtyme he is woundid of his owne malace.
- c1475 *Mondeville (Wel 564)164b/a : The 2 is þe malice of the wounde of himsilf.
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- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Is.47.10 : And trost thou haddest in thi malice and seidist, 'Ther is not that see me.'
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.1778 : Þat forȝetilnes No power haue by malis to oppresse Ȝoure fame in knyȝthod.
- ?1435 Lond.Chron.Jul.(Jul B.2)53 : He wolde sette in her astates..alle other fforiugged at laste parlement in withstondyng off his myht and off his malice.
- 1448 *Glo.Chron.C (Arms 58:Kooper)f.166r : The nexte somer eche of hem cam oute of her places and dighted hem shippes and robbed as skemours in the Brittons see, ayenst whiche were ordeyned lx shippes for to destroye the malice of hem.
- a1450(a1425) Mirk IPP (Cld A.2:Peacock)1160 : Hast þou any tyme in malencoly I-corset any þynge bytterly, In hope to make hyt fare þe worse By þe malys of thy corse?
- a1500(?c1378) Wycl.OPastor.(Ryl Eng 86)457 : Neþer þe word of þer prelat ne þe word of þer somenour han so myche maliss wiþ hem þat ne þey may preche & serue god aftir þis suspending.
- a1500 *Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)117/8 : Wherfor it wer necessarye for the Cristen people to knowe by what malice Mahomet ouircame so moche people.
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- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)112b/a : Þe malice [L malignitas] of a malicious sterre as j-tempered an abatid by presence of a goodliche sterre.
- c1430(c1386) Chaucer LGW (Benson-Robinson)2590 : The rede Mars was that tyme of the yeere So feble that his malyce is hym raft.
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Adversity, misfortune; suffering.
Associated quotations
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ecclus.11.29 : Þe malice of oon hour [WB(2) marg.: that is, schort turment] makeþ to forȝeting of most leccherie.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ecclus.12.9 : In þe goodis of a man þe enemys of hym [WB(2): hise enemyes ben sori]; & in þe sorewe & in þe malice of hym [WB(2) marg.: that is, in aduersite of him], þe frend is knowen.
- c1390 Whon alle soþes (Vrn)4 : Murþe is meyt [read: meynt] wiþ malys [rime: deuys, vys, prys].
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Co.(Manly-Rickert)A.4338 : I pray to god so yeue me sorwe and care If euer..Herde I a millere bettre yset a werk; He hadde a iape of malice [vrr. maleys, Males] in the derk.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)23161 : Oft i was wit malisce mette, Bot for yow was me neuer bett.