▪ I. maledict, a. (n.) arch.
(ˈmælɪdɪkt)
[ad. L. maledictus, pa. pple. of maledīcĕre: see prec.]
Accursed. Also as n., an accursed person.
| a 1550 Image Hypocr. in Skelton's Wks. (1843) II. 441/1 For some be Benedictes With many maledictes. 1867 Longfellow tr. Dante's Inferno v. 42 As the wings of starlings bear them on In the cold season in large band and full, So doth that blast the spirits maledict. |
▪ II. maledict, v.
(ˈmælɪdɪkt)
[f. L. maledict-, ppl. stem of maledīcĕre: see maledicent.]
trans. To address with maledictions, curse, execrate.
| 1780 in F. Moore Songs Amer. Rev. (1856) 333 Thy name should now be maledicted. 1898 T. Hardy Wessex Poems 36, I can but maledict her. 1901 Contemp. Rev. Mar. 425 Their gods were..to be crushed, broken, maledicted. |