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Where this is not the case, as in
malfeasance or male-feasance, malformation or
male-formation, etc., as also where the word to which it is
prefixed commences with a vowel, as in maladministration,
etc., the form mal is to be preferred, and is the one commonly
employed.

||Ma"la (?), n.; pl. of
Malum. [L.] Evils; wrongs; offenses
against right and law.

Mala in se [L.] (Law), offenses which
are such from their own nature, at common law, irrespective of
statute. -- Mala prohibita [L.] (Law),
offenses prohibited by statute, as distinguished from mala in
se, which are offenses at common law.

Mal"a*bar` (?), n. A region in the
western part of the Peninsula of India, between the mountains and the
sea.

Malabar nut (Bot.), the seed of an
East Indian acanthaceous shrub, the Adhatoda Vasica, sometimes
used medicinally.

Mal`a*ca*tune" (?), n. See
Melocoton.

Ma*lac"ca (?), n.

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