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1. Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; opposed to benign. "Witchcraft may be by operation of malign spirits." (Bacon)
2. Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets.
3. Malignant; as, a malign ulcer.
Origin: 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.
(01 Mar 1998)
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