† malefacture Obs.
[f. L. malefact-, malefacĕre: see malefact and -ure.]
= malefaction.
| 1635 Heywood Hierarch. vii. 412 The Putred Fountaine and bitumenous Well, From whence all Vice and Malefactures swell. 1652 Gaule Magastrom. 57 Whether it be in all their Art to elude them, as concerning the obnoxiousness of guilt, crime, offence or malefacture? |