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Evil machination; guile; deceit. [Obs.] Gower.

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

Wishing evil; disposed to injure others; rejoicing in another's misfortune.

The doing of an act which a person ought not to do; evil conduct; an illegal deed. [Written also malefeasance.]

in harm or misfortune to another; a disposition to injure another; a malignant design of evil. "Nor set down aught in malice." Shak. Envy, hatred, and malice are three distinct passions of the mind. Ld. Holt.

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

Unfavorableness; evil nature. The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemner yours. Shak.

r cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious. A malignant and a turbaned Turk. Shak.

The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.

Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results. [Written also malepractice.]

An evil. See Mala.

Evil conduct; fraudulent practices; misbehavior, corruption, or extortion in office.

a dualism in which Light is regarded as the source of Good, and Darkness as the source of Evil. The Manichæans stand as representatives of dualism pushed to its utmost development. Tylor.

A name given by tribes of American Indians to a great spirit, whether good or evil, or to any object of worship. Tylor. Gitche Manito the mighty, The Great Spirit, the creator, Smiled upon his helpless children! Longfellow. Mitche Manito the mighty, He the dreadful Spirit of Evil, As a serpent was depicted. Longfellow.…

escence from dried fronds of kelp, especially from those of the Laminaria saccharina, or devil's apron.

See Coleoptera and Sea devil.

The principal or ruling evil spirit. E. Arnold.

ples, and imagined that between them there existed a third power, neither wholly good nor evil, the Creator of the world and of man, and the God of the Jewish dispensation. Brande & C.

; to talk incoherently. He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils. Sir W. Scott.

o design; as, what do you mean to do What mean ye by this service Ex. xii. 26. Ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good. Gen. 1. 20. I am not a Spaniard To say that it is yours and not to mean it. Longfellow.