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A person of wild behavior; an excitable, rash, violent person. Shak.

To make mad; to drive to madness; to craze; to excite violently with passion; to make very angry; to enrage.

Strength; force; might; violent effort. [Obs., except in certain phrases.] There were in this battle of most might and main. R. of Gl. He 'gan advance, With huge force, and with importable main. Spenser.

, adv., fr. malus, bad, ill. In some words it has the form male-, as in malediction, malevolent. See Malice.

The quality or state of being malevolent; evil disposition toward another; inclination to injure others; ill will. See Synonym of Malice.

Malevolent. [Obs.] Bp. Warburton.

Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign. Witchcraft may be by operation of malign spirits. Bacon.

The benevolent spirits of the dead, especially of dead ancestors, regarded as family deities and protectors. Hail, O ye holy manes! Dryden.

Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium.

g arms. Addison . Frederick, in a public manifesto, appealed to the Empire against the insolent pretensions of the pope. Milman.

ived from the fact that March is the rutting time of hares, when they are excitable and violent. Wright.

se; perfected; as, a mature plan. This lies glowing, . . . and is almost mature for the violent breaking out. Shak.

To come together with hostile purpose; to have an encounter or conflict. Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us and worse our foes. Milton.

nt; hence, moderate in degree or quality; -- the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeable, etc.; -- applied to persons and things; as, a mild disposition; a mild eye; a mild air; a mild medicine; a mild insanity. The rosy morn resigns her light And milder glory to the noon. Waller. Adore him as a mi…

A violent and cold northwest wind experienced in the Mediterranean provinces of France, etc.

Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained; as:

The habit of soliloquizing, or of monopolizing conversation. It was not by an insolent usurpation that Coleridge persisted in monology through his whole life. De Quincey.

The quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods.

the toadstool (Agaricus muscarius), and in putrid fish. It is a typical ptomaine, and a violent poison.

Violent commotion; tumult; strife. [Obs.] o raise a mutiny betwixt yourselves. Shak. Mutiny act (Law), an English statute reënacted annually to punish mutiny and desertion. Wharton.