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Syn. -- Ill-disposed; evil-minded; mischievous; envious;
malevolent; invidious; spiteful; bitter; malignant; rancorous;
malign.

-- Ma*li"cious*ly, adv. --
Ma*li"cious*ness, n.

Ma*lign" (?), a. [L. malignus,
for maligenus, i. e., of a bad kind or nature; malus
bad + the root of genus birth, race, kind: cf. F.
malin, masc., maligne, fem. See Malice,
Gender, and cf. Benign, Malignant.]
1. Having an evil disposition toward others;
harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed
to benign.

Witchcraft may be by operation of malign
spirits.

2. Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious;
tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets.

3. Malignant; as, a malign
ulcer. [R.] Bacon.

Ma*lign", v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Maligned (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Maligning.


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