(2.) MALACHI, THE PROPHECY OF, the la canonical book of the Old Testament. Their habits are exactly adapted to their fhapes, and loaded with a multitude of buttons, which faften them close to their bodies. The country is very fertile. It abounds with odoriferous woods, fuch as aloes, fandal, and Caffia. The ground is covered, with flowers of the greateft fragrance, of which there is a perpetual fucceffion throughout the year. There are many mines of the most precious metals, faid to be richer than thofe of Brazil or Peru, and in fome places are mines of diamonds. The fea abounds with excellent fish, ambergris, pearls, &c. and the rocks with those delicate bird's nefts fo much in requeft in China; which are of fuch an exquifite flavour, that the Chinese for a long time purchased them for their weight in gold. See BIRDS NEST, 4; and HIRUNDO, N° 7. Notwithstanding all this plenty, the Malays are miferable. The culture of the lands, abandoned to flaves, is fallen into contempt. These wretched labourers, dragged inceffantly from their ruftic employments by their reftlefs mafters, who delight in war and maritime enterprises, have never time or refolution to give the neceffary attention to the labouring of their grounds; of confequence, the lands for the most part are uncultivated, and produce no kind of grain for the fubfiftence of the inhabitants. The fago tree indeed supplies in part the defect of grain. See CYCAS, N° 2; and SAGO, § 2. (3.) MALACCA, the capital of the above kingdom, is fituated in a flat country close to the fea. The walls and fortifications are founded on a folid rock, and are carried up to a great height; the lower part of them is wathed by the fea at every tide, and on the land fide is a wide canal, cut from the fea to the river, which makes it an ifland. In 1641 it was taken from the Portuguese by the Dutch, fince which time it has continued in their poffeffion. In this city there are many broad ftreets; but they are badly paved. The houses are tolerably well built, and fome of them have gardens adjacent. The inhabitants confift of a few Dutch, many Malayans, Moors, Chinefe, and other Indians; who are kept in awe by a fortrefs, which is feparated from the city by a river; and by good walls and baftions, as well as by frong gates, and a draw-bridge on the E. fide. The city is well fituated for trade and navigation. It was taken by the British in Nov. 1795; but restored in 1802. Lon. 102. 2. E. Lat. 2. 12. N. (4.) Malacca, STRAITS OF, a narrow fea between MALACCA (N° 1.) and the island of Sumatra, extending from the Equinoctial to Lat. 5. 9. N. MALACESENE, or MALSESINE, a populous . town of Italy, in the department of the Mincio, and diftrict (late duchy) of Verona; at the foot of Mount Baldo, 8 miles E. of Verona. (1.) MALACHI, [פ, Heb. i. e. my meffen. ger.] the last of the 12 effer prophets. He prophelied about 300 years before Chrift, reproving the Jews for their wickedness after their return from Babylon, and condemning the priests for being careless in their miniftry; at the fame time encouraging the few, who maintained their inte. grity. He diftinctly points at the Meffiah, as well as his forerunner John the Baptist, who fhould come in the spirit and power of Elijah. (1.)* MALACHITE. n. —This tone is foretimes entirely green, but lighter than that of the nephritick ftone, fo as in colour to resemble the leaf of the mallow, ax, from which it has its name; though fometimes it is veined with white, or fpotted with blue or black., Woodward. (2.) MALACHITE is not a tone, but a species of copper ore, in a state of oxydation. See CHEMISTRY, Index. MALACIA, in medicine. See LONGING, N° 2. MALACOPTERYGEOUS, adj. among ichthyologists, an appellation given to fuch fishes as have the rays of their fins bony, but not pointed or fharp at the extremities, like those of ancanthopterygeous fishes. MALACOSTOMOUS, adj. a term applied to fishes deftitute of teeth in the jaws, called allo leather-mouthed, as the tench, carp, bream, &c. MALACHRA, in botany, a genus of the polyandria order, belonging to the monadelphia class of plants. * MALALY. n. f. maladie, Fr.) A difeafe; a diftemper; a diforder of body; fickness.-Better it is to be private in forrow's torments, than, ty'd to the pomp of a palace, nurse inward maladies. Sidney-Phyficians firft require, that the malady be known thoroughly, afterwards teach how to cure and redress it. Spenfer Say, can you faft? your ftomachs are too young: And abftinence engenders maladies. Shak. -An accidental violence of motion, has removed that malady that has baffled the skill of physicians. SouthDryden. Love's a malady without a cure. MALAGA, an ancient, rich and ftrong town of Spain, in Grenada, with two caftles, a bishop's fee, and a good harbour, which renders it a place of confiderable commerce. This commerce, according to M. Bourgoanne, is entirely in favour of Spain; though with little advantage to its navigation; for of 842 veffels which arrived at this port in 1782, from almost every commercial mation, fcarcely 100 were Spanish, even including the ships of war. The English, who were in poffeffion of the greateft part of the trade, carry thither woollens and great quantities of small ware; the Dutch carry fpice, cutlery ware, laces, ribbons, thread, &c. Thefe nations, thofe of the north, and Italy, export to the amount of two millions and a half of piaftres in wines, fruits, fumach, pickled anchovies, oil, &c. and all they carry thither amounts only to about a million and a half. The ftreets of Malaga are narrow, but there are fome good fquares; and the cathedral church is a fuperb building, faid to be as large as St Paul's. The bishop's palace is a large edifice, but looks infignificant from its vicinity to the other Its prelate enjoys a revenue of L.16,000 Sterling. Malaga is feated on the Mediterranean, at the foot of a craggy mountain. Lon. 4. 36. E. Lat. 36, 44. N. MALAGRIDA, Gabriel, an Italian Jefuit, born in 1686. He was appointed to conduct millions into Portugal. To great eloquence he added the most ardent zeal for the intereft of the fociety. He on the SE. extending about * 300 miles along the Atlantic. It abounds with lemons, oranges, dates, palm wine, and a peculiarly delicious kind of nuts; but its chief article of commerce is pepper. The people are governed by a king, whom they hold in great veneration; but they are fond of the Europeans. The Portuguese formerly monopolized the trade of this country, but now hare it with the British and Dutch. From their intercourfe with the women has sprung a nume rous race of mulattoes, whom the Portuguefe ftyle HIDALGOS, or gentlemen, and i fome of whom have acquired fo much education as to have actually commenced clergymen, and preached among their pagan kinsmani MALALEUCA. See MELALEUCAŢ (1.) MALAMOCCO, an land and diftrict of Maritime Auftria, in the Dogado of Venice, 5 miles long, but not one broad. district, anciently the capital of the Venetians, 5 (2.) MALAMOCCo, a feaport town in the above miles S. of Venice. In 809, it was deftroyed by the Franks in 1105 by fire; and in 1111, by an earthquake. The harbour is very safe, and has two forts ftrongly garrifoned. Italian, to go ill.] A dry fcab on the pastern of RIERY, PART IV. Se&t. XI. quick with impudence; fprightly without refpect He foon became the fashionable, director; and was refpected as a faint, and confulted as an oracle. When a confpiracy was formed by the duke of Aveiro against the king of Portugal, it is faid that he and other two Jefuits were confulted concerning the measure, and gave it as their opinion, that it was only a venial crime to kill a king who perfecuted the faints. About that time the king of Portugal banished the Jesuits from his kingdom: and 3 of them were apprehended, viz. Malagrida, Alexander, and Mathos, who were accufed of having approved his murder. But either the trial could not be proceeded in without the confent of the pope, or no proof could-be got fufficient to condemn Malagrida; and therefore he was delivered to the inquifition, as having formerly advanced fome propofitions bordering on herefy. Two publications which he acknowledged, and which give the fulleft in dications of complete infanity, were the foundation of these fufpicions. The one was written in Latin, entitled, Tractatus de vita et imperio Antichriffis the other in Portuguese, entitled, "The Life of St Anne, compofed with the affiftance of the bleffed Virgin Mary and her most holy Son." They are full of extravagance and abfurdity.This en thufiaft pretended to have the gift of miracles. He told the judges of the inquifition, that God him felf had declared him his ambassador, apostle, and prophet; that he was united to God by a perpetual union; and that the Virgin Mary, with the confent of Jefus Chrift and of the whole Trinity, had declared him to be her fon. In short, be confeffed, that he felt in the prifon, at the age of 72, fome emotions very uncommon at that per riod of life, which at firft gave him, great uneafinefs, but that it had been revealed to him by God that these emotions were only the natural effect of an involuntary agitation, wherein there was the fame, merit as in prayer. For fuch ex travagancies this unfortunate wretch was condem ned by the Inquifition; but his death was baftened by a vilion which he eagerly revealed. Upon the death of the marquis of Tancourt, comman. der of Eftramadura, mournful difcharges were made in honour of him by the caftle of Lisbon, and by all the forts on the banks of the Tagus. These being heard by Malagrida in his dungeon, be fuppofed, from their happening during the night, that the king was dead. Next day he demanded an audience from the members of the Inquifition, when he told them that he had been ordered by God to show the minifter of the holy office that he was not a bypocrite, for the king's death had been revealed to him, and he had seen in a vifion the torments to which his majesty was condemned for having perfecuted the religious of his order. This was fufficient to accelerate his punishment; he was burnt on the 21st Sept. 1761, in his 75th year, not as a confpirator, but as a falfe prophet, for which he deserved only to have been confined in bedlam. The acts of impiety whereof he was accufed were nothing more than extravagancies, proceeding from a miftaken devotion and an overheated brain. MALAGUETTA, the GRAIN COAST, or the PEPPER COAST, a country of Guinea, bounded by Sierra Leona on the W. and the Ivory coast Peace, mafter marquis, your are malapert. If thou dar'ft tempt me further, draw thy Shak. fword. What, what? nay, then I must have an ounce or two of this malapert blood from you. Shak-Are you growing malapers? Will you force me to make ufe of my authority? Dryden. pudently; faucity. * MALAPERTLY, adv. [from malapert.] Im 12 Liveliefs of reply without decency ; quick im* MALAPERTNESS. n. f. [from malapert.] pudence; faucinefs. of the MALIC ACID with various bases. See MALATE, a falt formed by the combination CHEMISTRY. MALATHIA, or an ancient town of Afiatic nia Minor on the W. fide of the Euphrates, near Turkey, capital of Arme its fource; with an archbishop's fee. It was the birth-place of ABULFARAGIUS. Lon. 43. 25. E. Lat. 39. 8. N... MALAVISTA, a town in the isle of Cuba. * To MALAXATE. v. a. [μarat]w.) To soften, MALAYANS, or the people of Malacca. See W. Gothland: Ift, 21 miles S. of Chriftianstadt: Peene, 10 miles N. of Wahren. MAL MALCOLM, the name of 4 kings of the Scots. See SCOTLAND. MALCOLME, the Rev. David, F.A.Ş. Lon. don, a late learned clergyman of the church of Scotland; who was minifter of Duddington, near Edinburgh, prior to 1741. He had paid particular attention to the ftudy of languages and antiquities; in confequence of which he was admitted a member of the London Antiquarian So ciety. He published Effays and Letters, at Edin burgh, in 1739, which display great knowledge of the Celtic and Hebrew languages. These were intended as an introduction to his great work of a Celtic Dictionary, but which, it is to be regretted, he did not finish. They are commended by Mr Pinkerton, and quoted with refpect by M. Gebelin, in his Monde Primitif, and by M. Bullet, in his Memoires Celtiques. MALCONTENTA, a town..in the Dogado, W. of Venice. MALDEGHEM, a town of France, in the dep. of Lys, 10 miles E. of Bruges. (1.) MALDEN, a town of Holland, in the dep. of the Rhine, and late prov. of Guelders and county of Zutphen: 7 miles E. of Borkeloe. fuits. Peter Gondi acquitted him of the firft charge, and the parliament of Paris of the trer. He retired after thefe troubles to Bourges, but went to Rome by order of pope Gregory ill. to take care of the publication of the Septun, int; and there, after finishing his commentary on the Gospels in 1382, he died in the begiuring of 183. He alfo wrote Commentaries on Jeremiali, Bauch, Ezekiel, and Daniel; a treatife on the facraments, on grace, on original fin; and several other pieces printed at Paris in 1677 in folio. His ftyle is clear, lively, and easy. He does not fervitely follow the fcholaftic divines; but is pretty free, and fometimes fingular, in his fentiments. (1.)* MALE `adj. [male, Fr. mafculus, Latin] Of the fex that begets, not bears young; not female. Which shall be heir of the two mak twins, who, by the diffection of the mother, were laid open to the world? Locke.-You have no male child; your daughters are all married to wealthy patricians. Swift. ◄ ́(2.) * MALE. nef. The he of any fpecies.-In moft the male is the greater, and in fome few the female. Bacon.-There be more males than females; but in different proportions. Graunt's Bills of Mortality. (4.) MALE is alfo, from some resemblance, often applied to inanimate things; as a male flower, a male screw, &c. See BOTANY, Index; FLOS, § 1. N° 2.; MAS, N° 7. and SCREW. * (5.) MALE, in compofition, fignifies ill; from male, Latin; male, old French. (2.) MALDEN, or MALDON, a town of Effex, feated on an eminence at the conflux of the Chel-(3.) MALE, by zoologifts, is defined that fex of mer and Blackwater, where they enter the fea. animals which has the parts of generation fituated It was the firft Roman colony in Britain, and the externally. See GENERATION, and SEX feat of fome of the ancient British kings. It was befieged, plundered, and burnt by queen Boadicea; but the Romans repaired it. It was again ruined by the Danes, but rebuilt by the Saxons. It is governed by 2 bailiffs, 6 aldermen, 18 capital burgeffes, a steward, recorder, and above 400 commoners, who all vote for its members of parliament. It has a convenient haven for veffels of 400 tons; and drives a good trade in coals, iron, corn, and deals. It has 2 parish churches, and a large library for the ufe of the minifter and the neighbouring clergy. Here is a grammar fchool, a charity work-house, a market on Saturday, and a fair on the 18th Sept. MALDEN WATER is navigable up to the town, which lies to miles E. of Chelmsford, and 37 NE. of London. Lon. o. 41. E. Lat. 51. 46. N. (3.) MALDEN WATER. See BLACKWATER. N° 1 and 13. MALDIVE, or ISLANDS, a clufter of fmall MALDIVIA, islands in the indian ocean, 500 miles SW. of Ceylon. They are about 1000 in number, and extend from Lat. 2° S. to 7° N. They are generally black low lands, furrounded by rocks and fands. The natives are of the fame complexion with the Arabians, profefs the Mahometan religion, and are subject to one fovereign. The channels between the islands are very narrow, and some of them are fordable. They produce neither rice, corn, nor herbage: but the natives live upon cocoa-nuts, and other fruits, roots, and fish. They have little or nothing to barter with, except the fhells called coauries, with which they abound. MALDON. See MALDEN, N° 2. MALDONAT, John, a Spanish Jefuit, born in 1534. He was accused of herefy, and of procuring a fraudulent will, in feducing the prefident St Andre at Paris to bequeath his eftate to the Je (6.) MALE, in geography, the principal of the MALDIVE ISLANDS. It is 44 miles in circumfe rence, and has a town, where the king refides. (6.)* MALEADMINISTRATIOŇ, s. S. Bad management of affairs.-From the practice of the wifeft nations, when a prince was laid afide for maleadminiftration, the nobles and people did refume the adminiftration of the fupreme power. Swift.-A fubject denounces his fuperior for maleadminiftration. Ayliffe. MALEBRANCHE, Nicholas, an eminent French metaphyfician, the fon of Nicholas Malebranche, fecretary to the French king, was born in 1638, and admitted into the congregation of the oratory in 1660. He at first studied languages and hiftory; but afterwards meeting with Des Cartes's Treatife of Man, he applied himself entirely to philosophy. In 1699, he was admitted an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. Although of a delicate conftitution, he enjoyed a pretty good state of health till he died in 1715, aged 77. He read little, but thought a great deal. He defpised that kind of philofophy which confifts only in knowing the opinions of other men. He could never read ten verses together without difguft. He meditated with his windows fhut, to keep out the light, which difturbed him. His converfation turned upon the fame fubjects as his books; but was mixed with fo much modefty and deference to the judgment of others, that it was univerfally defired. His books are famous; particularly his Recherche d la Verite, i. e. Search after truth; his defign in which is, to point out the errors into which we are daily led by our fenfes, imagination, and paffions; and to prescribe a method for discovering the truth, which he does by ftarting the notion of feeing all things in God. And hence he is led to peak of human knowledge, compared with that light which displays itself from the ideal world; and by attending to which, with pure and defecate minds, he fuppofes knowledge to be most eafily had. These fentiments, with his fine manner of expreffing them, made many admire his genius and abilities; but he is at beft a vifionary philofopher. Mr Locke, in his examination of Malebranche's opinion of feeing all things in God, ftyles him an "acute and ingenious author ;" and tells us, that there are many very fine thoughts, judicious reasonings, and uncommon reflections, in his Recherche, yet he refutes the chief principles of his fyftem. Malebranche wrote, many other pieces, to confirm his doctrine, and to clear it from objections. (1.) * MALECONTENT.) adj. [male and conMALECONTENTED. tent.] Difcontented; diffatisfied. Shak. Brother Clarence, how like you our choice, That you stand penfive, as half malecontent. Poor Clarence! Is it for a wife That thou art malecontent? -The king, for fecuring his ftate against mutinous and malecontended subjects, who might have refuge in Scotland, sent a solemn ambassage to conclude a peace. Bacon. They cannot fignalize themselves as malecontents, without breaking through all the fofter virtues. Addison.-The ufual way in defpotic governments is to confine the malecontent to some castle. Addifon. (2.) MALECONTENTS. n. f. plur. Seditious perfons; or perfons difaffected to the government of their country. It is furprifing that Dr Johnson fhould have omitted a fubftantive noun fo frequently used by historians. * MALECONTENTEDLY. adv. [from male content. With difcontent. *MALECONTENTEDNESS. n.f.[from male content.] Difcontented nefs; want of affection to government. They would afcribe the laying down my paper to a spirit of malecontentedness. Spectator. MALEDICTED. adj. [maledi&us, Lat.] Ac curfed. Dictionary. *MALEDICTION. n. f. [maledi&ion, French; maledictio, Latin.] Curfe; execration; denuncia tion of evil, Then let my life long time on earth main tained be, To wretched me, the laft, worst malediction. .ས་་ Sydney -The true original cause, divine malediction, laid by the fin of man upon these creatures which God hath made for the ufe of man, was above the reach of natural capacity. Hooker.-In Spain they faid near eight months, during which Buckingham lay under millions of maledictions; which, upon the prince's arrival in the weft, did vanish into praifes. Wotton. * MALEFACTION. n.. [malefacio, Lat.] A crime; an offence. Guilty creatures at a play Been ftruck fo to the foul, that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions. Shak *MALEFACTOR. n. f. [male and facio, Lat.] An offender against law; a criminal; a guilty perfon. * A jailor to bring forth. Some monftrous malefactor, Shak. Ant. & Cleop, As much as malefactors do your sword. Rofc. It is a fad thing when men shall repair to the miniftry, not for preferment but refuge; like malefactors flying to the altar, only to fave their lives. South. If their barking dog disturb her ease, On Bacchus's altar, and his forfeit paid. Dryd MALEFIQUE. maleficus, Latin.] Mif chievous; hurtful. Dia. MALEMORT, a town of France, in the dep. of the mouths of the Rhone; 6 m. S. of Salon. MALENE, a town of France, in the dep. of Lozere, on the Tarn, 15 miles SW. of Mende. * MALEPRACTICE, n. f. [male and practice.] Practice contrary to rules. MALESHERBES, a town of France, in the dep. of the Loiret, 131⁄2 miles S. of Estampe. MALESTROIT, a town of France, in the dep. of Morbihan, 164 miles ENE. of Vannes. MALEVAL, a town of France, in the dep. of Rhone and Loire; 15 miles S. of St Etienne. MALEVILLE, a town of France, in the dep. of Aveiron; 21 miles W. of Rhodez. * MALEVOLENCE. n, f. [malevolentia, Lat. Ill will; inclination to hurt others; malignity. The fon of Duncan " Lives in the English court; and is receiv'd Of the most pious Edward with such grace,.. That the malevolence of fortune nothing Takes from his high refpect. Shak. Macbeth. * MALEVOLENT. adj. [malevolus, Latin.] Ill-difpofed towards others; unfavourable; malignant. I have, thee, in my arms, Though our malevolent stars have struggled hard, And held us long asunder. Dryd K. Arthur MALEVOLENTLY.adv.[from malevolence.] Malignly; malignantly; with ill-will.--The oak did not only refent his fall, but vindicate him from afperfions malevolently caft upon him. Howel. MALEXANDER, a town of Sweden, in E Gothland; 25 miles S. of Linkoping. MALGRATO, a town of Italy, in the depart ment of the Lario, and district of Como; 10 miles NE. of Como., MALGUENAC, a town of France, in the dep. of Morbihan, 3 miles W. of Pontivy..... MALHERBE, Francis DE, the beft French poet of his time, was born at Caen about 1556, of a noble family. He quitted Normandy at 17 years of age; and went into Provence, where he attached himfelf to the family of Henry Angouleme, the natural fon of king Henry II. and was in the fervice of that prince till he was killed in 1586. Card. de Perron, being informed, of his merit and abilities, introduced him to Henry, IV. who took him into his fervice. After that monarch's death, Q. Mary de Medicis fettled a pen fion The air appearing so malicious in this morbifick confpiracy, exacts a more particular regard. Harvey on Confumptions. fion of 500 crowns upon our poet, who died at Paris in 1628. The beft and moft complete edition of his works is that of 1666, with Menage's remarks. Boileau confiders him as the father of French poetry; but he compofed with great difficulty. He was a man of a fingular humour, and blunt in his behaviour, but without religion. He often faid, that the religion of gentlemen was that of their prince." In his laft moments he corrected his landlady for speaking bad French. MALIC ACID, an acid abounding in the juice of unripe fruits, particularly in apples; fo named from malum, Latin, an apple. See CHEMISTRY. (1.) * MALICE. n. f. [malice, French; malitia, Latin.] 1. Badnefs of defign; deliberate mischief. -God hath forgiven me many fins of malice, and therefore furely he will pity my infirmities. Taylor. 2. Il intention to any one; defire of hurting.Duncan is in his grave; Malice domeftic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further! Shak. Milton. Satan, who late fled before the threats Of Gabriel out of Eden, now improv'd In meditated fraud and malice. (2.) MALICE, in ethics and law, is a formed defign of doing mifchief to another; it differs from hatred. In murder, it is malice makes the crime; and if a man, having a malicious intent to kill another, in the execution of his malice kills a perfon not intended, the malice shall be connected to his perfon, and he fhall be adjudged a murderer. The words ex malitia præcogitata are neceffary to an indictment of murder, &c. And this malitia præcogitata, or malice prepenfe, may be either exprefs or implied. Express malice is, when one, with a fedate, deliberate mind, and formed defign, kills another; which formed defign is evidenced by external circumftances, discovering that intention; as lying in wait, antecedent menaces, former grudges, and concerted schemes to do him fome bodily harm. Befides, where no malice is expreffed, the law will imply it; as where a man wilfully poifons another; in fuch a deliberate act the law prefumes malice, though no particular enmity can be proved. And if a man kills another fuddenly, without any, or without a confiderable provocation, the law implies malice; for no perfon, unless of an abandoned heart, would be guilty of fuch an act upon a flight or no caufe. *To MALICE, v. a. [from the noun.] To regard with ill will. Obfolete. The cause why he this fly fo maliced, Was, that his mother which him bore and bred, The most fine-fingered workman on the ground, Arachne, by his means, was vanquish'd. Spenf. *MALICIOUS. adj. [malicieux, French; malitiofus, Latin.] Il-difpofed to any one; intending ill; malignant. We must not ftint MALICIOUSLY.adv. [from malicious.} With malignity; with intention of mischief.—An intrigue between his majesty and a junto of ministers maliciously bent against me, broke out, and bad like to have ended in my utter destruction. Swift. * MALICIOUSNESS. n. f. [from malicious.] Malice; intention of mischief to another.— Not out of envy or maliciousness, Dol forbear to crave your special aid. Herbert. - MALICOLLO. See MALLICOLLO. MALICORNE, a town of France, in the dep. of Sarte, on the Sarte; 6 miles N. of Fleche. * MALIGN. adj. [maligne, French; malignus, Latin: the g is mute or liquefcent.] 1. Unfavour able; ill-difposed to any one; malicious.-Witchcraft may be by operation of malign spirits. Bacon. If in the conftellations war were sprung, Two planets, rushing from afpect malign Of fierceft oppofition, in mid fky, Should combat, and their jarring spheres con found. Milton. Of contempt, and the malign hostile influence it has upon government, every man's experience will inform him. South. 2. Infectious; fatal to the body; peftilential. He that turneth the humours back, and maketh the wound bleed inwards, endangereth malign ulcers, and pernicious impofthumations. Bacon. *To MALIGN. v. a. [from the adjective.} 1. To regard with envy or malice. The people practise what mifchiefs and villanies they will against private men, whom they malign, by stealing their goods, or murdering them. Spenfer. It is hardly to be thought that any governor fhould fo malign his fucceffor, as to fuffer an evil to grow up which he might timely have kept under. Spenf. Strangers conspired together against him, and maligned him in the wildernefs. Eccluf. x\v. 18.—If it is a pleasure to be envied and thot at, to be maligned standing, and to be despised falling; then it is a pleasure to be great. South. 2. To mifchief; to hurt; to harm. * MALIGNANCÝ. n. f. [from malignant.] 1. Malevolence; malice, unfavourableness. My ftars fhine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, diftemper yours. Shak. 2. De ftructive tendency.-The infection doth produce a bubo, which, according to the degree of its malignancy, either proves eafily curable, or else it proceeds in its venom. Wifeman. (1.) MALIGNANT. adj. [malignant, French.] 1. Malign; envious; unpropitious; malicious; mifchievous; intending or effecting ill. O malignant and ill-boding ftars! His will is most malignant, and it stretches Shak. To good malignant, to bad men benign. Milt. They have feen all other motions befides their own reprefented in a falfe and malignant light. Watts. 2. Hoftile to life: as, malignant fevers. -They hold, that the cause of the gout is a malignant vapour that falls upon the joint. Temple Let |