maliciously, adv.
(məˈlɪʃəslɪ)
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
1. In a spirit of malice or ill-will; occas. with sportive ‘malice’. In early use also: † Wickedly.
| 1382 Wyclif Dan. xiii. 43 These thingus, whiche these maliciously maken to gydre aȝeinus me. c 1440 Jacob's Well 14 We denounce acursed alle þo þat malycyously depriue of here ryght..holy cherche. 1555 W. Watreman Fardle Facions Pref. 15 It hadde been much better for them, neuer..to haue knowen the waie of truthe, then..so rashely and maliciously to haue forsaken it. 1619 Dalton Country Just. lxxv. (1630) 191 Taunts or songs malitiously repeated or sung. 1710 Tatler No. 235 ¶2 This kind Parent..is maliciously thankful that none of her Girls are like any of her Neighbours. 1838 Dickens Nich. Nick. xiii, ‘Well Nickleby’, said Squeers, eyeing him maliciously, ‘you think he has run away’. 1849 Macaulay Hist. Eng. viii. II. 381 Wright maliciously told the counsel for the defence that they had only themselves to thank. |
† 2. Violently. Obs.
| c 1470 Lament. Mary Magd. xviii, Thei him assailed so maliciouslie With their scourges and strokes beastiall. 1606 Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iii. xiii. 179, I will be trebble-sinewed, hearted, breath'd, And fight maliciously. 1611 ― Wint. T. i. ii. 321 A lingring Dram, that should not worke Maliciously, like Poyson. |
† 3. Unpropitiously, unfavourably. Obs.
| 1677 Earl of Orrery Art of War 100 Unless the Wind blows maliciously. |
4. Law. With ‘malice prepense’.
| 1421 in Calr. Proc. Chanc. Q. Eliz. I. (1827) Introd. 17 John Wethy..malycyouslych ymagenyd him to slee. 1530–1 Act 22 Hen. VIII, c. 11 Dyvers evyll dysposed personnes..maliciously at dyverse and sondry tymes hathe cutte cast downe and broken up dyvers parties of the Dyke. 1670–1 Act 22 & 23 Chas. II, c. 7 §1 Where..any person..shall in the night time malitiously unlawfully and willingly burne..any Ricks [etc.]. 1716 W. Hawkins Pleas Crown i. 106 He may be indicted as having maliciously burned the House of B. 1885 Law Rep. Weekly Notes 72/1 The maliciously procuring a bankruptcy is not actionable unless the adjudication is set aside. 1889 Ld. Justice Bowen 23 Q. B. Div. 612 ‘Maliciously’..implies an intention to do an act which is wrongful, to the detriment of another. |