maledicent

English

Etymology

Latin maledicent

Adjective

maledicent (comparative more maledicent, superlative most maledicent)

1. (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?

2. (archaic) slanderous

Latin

Verb

maledīcent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of maledīcō