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malefic
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Word definitions for malefic in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Having an evil or harmful influence; baleful. (from 17th c.)
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Malefic may refer to: Malefic planet Malefic (musician) Malefic (webcomic) Malefic (comics) - Ma'alefa'ak ; Martian Manhunter 's twin brother and nemesis.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Malefic \Ma*lef"ic\, a. [L. maleficus: cf. F. mal['e]fique. See Malefaction .] Doing mischief; causing harm or evil; nefarious; hurtful. [R.] --Chaucer.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force" [syn: malevolent , malign , evil ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from Latin maleficus "wicked, vicious, criminal," from male "ill" (see mal- ) + -ficus , from stem of facere "to make, do" (see factitious ).
Usage examples of malefic.
Over the years he came to resemble a high hill covered in grass and shrubs and stunted trees, with here and there a portion of scale showing through, and the colossal head entirely emergent, unclothed by vegetation, engaging everything that passed before him with huge, slit-pupiled golden eyes, exerting a malefic influence over the events that flowed around him, twisting them into shapes that conformed to the cruel designs his discarnate intellect delighted in the weaving of and profited his vengeful will.
Over the island brooded a spirit sullen, alien, implacable, filled with the threat of latent, malefic forces waiting to be unleashed.
After the death of Neg the Malefic, the necromancer whom Conan had slain, the young Cimmerian and Elashi had agreed to travel together until their paths parted.
Then she found her voice and screamed to release the malefic horror that hemmed her in.
I could feel the great emptiness of the Sinai solidifying around us, as malefic as a black tower in whose keep we stood.
Speech was a communal howl, the bathroom door opened onto a hotly lit sidereal reality, and the bartender posed a cryptic shadow against what an unwitting soul might take for an illuminated mirror but was in truth an illusion cast by a malefic device of unguessable origin.