Definition of Malignent
Ma*lig"nant (?), a. [L.
malignans, -antis, p. pr. of malignare,
malignari, to do or make maliciously. See Malign, and
cf. Benignant.] 1. Disposed to do harm,
inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence
or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious.
A malignant and a turbaned Turk.
Shak.
2. Characterized or caused by evil
intentions; pernicious. "Malignant care."
Macaulay.
Some malignant power upon my life.
Shak.
Something deleterious and malignant as his
touch. Hawthorne.
3. (Med.) Tending to produce death;
threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant
diphtheria.
Malignant pustule (Med.), a very
contagious disease, transmitted to man from animals, characterized by
the formation, at the point of reception of the virus, of a vesicle
or pustule which first enlarges and then breaks down into an
unhealthy ulcer. It is marked by profound exhaustion and usually
fatal. Called also charbon, and sometimes, improperly,
anthrax.
Ma*lig"nant (?), n. 1.
A man of extreme enmity or evil intentions.
Hooker.
2. (Eng. Hist.) One of the adherents
of Charles I. or Charles II.; -- so called by the opposite
party.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Harmful, malevolent, injurious
- harmfully cancerous
malignant tumor
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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