malign
malign , adjective
[Latin malignus, for maligenus, that is, of a bad kind or nature; malus bad + the root of genus birth, race, kind: compare French malin, masc., maligne, fem. See Malice, Gender, and compare Benign, Malignant.]
1.
Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.
Witchcraft may be by operation of malign spirits.
2.
Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets.
3.
Malignant; as, a malign ulcer. [Rare] — Bacon
Malign , transitive verb
[Compare Latin malignare. See Malign, a.]
To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure. [Obsolete]
The people practice what mischiefs and villainies they will against private men, whom they malign by stealing their goods, or murdering them.
2.
To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse.
To be envied and shot at; to be maligned standing, and to be despised falling.
Malign , intransitive verb
To entertain malice. [Obsolete]