Middle English Dictionary Entry
malīgne adj.
Entry Info
Forms | malīgne adj. |
Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Wicked, sinful; (b) of a planet: having a harmful influence; (c) surg. infected, ?gangrenous.
Associated quotations
a
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)15/411 : Ac hou his hit..þer so feawe stondeþ styf To fytte aȝenis senne Maligne?
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)70/1999 : Treuþe hys þat þer no gile be Þourwe spousebreche maligne.
- a1450(c1433) Lydg.St.Edm.(Hrl 2278)405/484 : This eek his wil that thow, nat maligne To disobeie his lustis in no thyng, Into his hand thy kyngdam to resigne.
- a1450(1412) Hoccl.RP (Hrl 4866)3475 : Þi pacient meeknesse Naght meeued was ageyn Semey maligne, Whos hy malice and crabbid wikkidnesse Yaf greet enchesoun..To venge the.
- ?c1450 Brut-1447 (Trin-C O.9.1)487/27 : A standard of tre..was þat tyme torne vp and cast downe with þe malign spirite.
- ?a1475 LDirige(2) (Dc 322)319 : Me thynketh myn hert ys harder than a ston And besyed with a spiryte maligne.
- a1500(1445) ?Lydg.Marg.Entry (Hrl 3869)65 : Maugre the myght of spirites maligne, To god aboue hire praier..Maketh now for Rest.
- a1500 Mirror Salv.(Beeleigh)p.53 : Be penaunce commes vntil heven synnere vile & maligne.
b
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)20245 : Yt semeth as thow haddest ben Hih in the hevene..And axyd ther, off euery sterre, Ther coursys..And..Wych ar good, wych ar malygne Whan they shal entren any sygne.
c
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)26b/b : If þe place forsoþ bigyn to be maligne, i. wicked [L malignari], & to be corrupt, be it scarified al aboute, & be it wasshen with water ysalted.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)51b/a : And he calleþ wicked or maligne [Ch.(2): euel; L maligna] vlcerez..woundez þat ar made after þe heuedez or endez of þe musculez, & most of neruez.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)163a/a : And with þat it [cauterization] correcteþ & amendeþ þe reliquez, i. leuyngez, of þe forseid euacuacionz most in stronge sikenesez & maligne, i. wicked [Ch.(2): cursed; L malignis].