maledicent
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]maledicent (comparative more maledicent, superlative most maledicent)
- (archaic) reproachful in speech
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
- Did the maledicent Bodyguard, getting (as was too inevitable) better malediction than he gave, load his musketoon, and threaten to fire; and actually fire?
- (archaic) slanderous
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]maledīcent