maleficiate

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.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Adjective

maleficiāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of maleficiātus
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