▪ I. malison, n. arch. and dial.
(ˈmælɪsən)
Forms: 4 malisun(e, malysun, malesun, maliscun, malescun, malicun, malicoun, 4–5 malyson(e, malisoun(e, 4–6 malysoun, 5–6 maleso(u)n(e, 6 malisone, 7 mallison, 4– malison.
[a. OF. maleison:—L. maledictiōn-em malediction.]
1. A curse, malediction.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 2051 His malison on þam he laid. c 1300 Havelok 426 Haue he the malisun to-day Of alle þat eure speken may! c 1320 Sir Beues 3696, I praie Mahoun Þar fore ȝeue þe is malisoun. c 1450 Mirour Saluacioun 580 The malison of oure for-modere shuld torne to benedictionne. 1583 Leg. Bp. St. Androis 283 Scho endit, And left hir malisone, consider, To Lowrie, and the land together. 1586 Durham Depos. (Surtees) 319 He answered, God's malison light on him, for he haith beggered me. 1691 Ray Coll. Words, Gloss. Northanhymb. 146 Mallison, q.d. Malediction, v. Bennison. 1721 Ramsay Lucky Spence xvi, My malison light..On them that drink and dinna pay. 1808 Scott Marm. v. xxv, A minstrel's malison is said. 1861 Goldw. Smith Irish Hist. 43 Their malison was almost as terrible as the curse of a priest. 1865 Kingsley Herew. xiii, Farewell, and my malison abide with thee! |
† 2. The state or condition of being cursed. Obs.
| c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xliii. (Cecile) 277 Sa man, þat ves in malysone, mycht þar chese lestand benysone. |
3. dial. A plague, torment. Also with n. prefixed, as cat-malison (see cat n. 18), horse-malison one who is cruel to horses. (See E.D.D.)
▪ II. † malison, v. Sc. Obs.
(ˈmælɪsən)
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To curse; to pronounce a malediction upon.
| 1588 A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. in Cath. Tract. (S.T.S.) 215 To malesone any, by geuing thame to the deuil, in visching thame sicknes, deathe or any euill. 1675 in Edgar Old Ch. Life Scotl. (1885) 273 note, [A woman confessed that she] malinsount [another woman]. |