malefice
See also: maléfice
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin maleficium: compare French maléfice. See malefactor.
Noun
malefice (plural malefices)
- (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) malefice
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.