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maligner (s.xii1)

maligner (s.xii1)

 
  FEW:  malignare 6/i,104b Gdf:  malignier 5,123a GdfC: TL: malignier 5,996 DEAF:  malignier  DMF:  maligner  TLF:  malin (maligner)  OED:  malign v.  MED:  malignen v.  DMLBS:  malignari 1694a

v.trans.

to cause harm, be malicious to
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  Lieve les tues mains es superbes d'els en fin! Cum granz choses maligna li enemis el saint  Oxf Ps ANTS 85.73.4
( c.1300; MS: s.xivm )  Il aveient la volunté pur luy maligner Et tant cum il poeient jour et nuit grever  Genèse 590
maligner conseil sur
to devise malicious schemes against
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 ) Sur le tuen pople malignerent cunseil (Latin: Super populum tuum malignaverunt consilium)  Oxf Ps ANTS 92.82.3

v.intrans.

to cause harm, be malicious
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 ) ne voiles que tu malignes  Oxf Ps ANTS 63.36.7
maligner en
to cause harm, be malcious to
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  Ne voilez tucher les miens crist, e es miens prophetes ne voilez maligner  Oxf Ps ANTS 105.104.14

[hp]

See also:

mal1  malignant  maligne  malignité  malignus 
This is an AND2 Phase 3 (I/Y-M) entry. © 2008-2012 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
maligner