maleficiate

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English

Etymology

Late Latin maleficiatus, past participle of maleficiare (“to bewitch”).

Verb

maleficiate (third-person singular simple present maleficiates, present participle maleficiating, simple past and past participle maleficiated)

  1. (obsolete) To bewitch; to harm.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      every black dog or cat he sees he suspecteth to be a Devil, every person comes near him is maleficiated

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “maleficiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Adjective

maleficiāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of maleficiātus

Spanish

Verb

maleficiate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of maleficiar combined with te
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