Maledîco, maledîcis, pen. prod. maledixi, maledictum, maledícere. Plaut.To curse: to ralle: to checke: to speake ill to.Maledicit inernditus apertius. Quint. The vnlarned checketh or raileth more openly.Liberius maledîcere. Horat. Verbo maledicere alicui. Plautus. To speake an ill word to one.
Maledictum, ti, n. g. Cic.A checke: a taunt: a rebuke: a shiewde word: an yll ceport.Kefutatio maledictorum. Quint. The confutation of rayling wordes.Vocis insanæ maledicta. Propert. Vina maledicta. Quin. Abstinere maledicto & maledictis.Cicer.To forbeare yll language.Addere maledicta culpæ.Ouid.Ouer and beside the offence to vse fowle wordes.Arripere maledictom ex triuio, Vide ARRIPIO.Vocibus maledictisque celebrare aliquid.Cicer.With much speaking and railing at a thing to make it notable.Certare maledictis, Vide CERTO.Conferre omnia maledicta in aliquem.Cicer.To vse all the fowle language or spitefull wordes that he can, towarde one.Congerere maledicta. Quint. Idem. Conijcere maledicta in vitam alicuius.Cic.To rayle or speak very yll of ones life.Effugete maledictum. Cice. To scape siannderous report.Figere omnes maledictis, Cicer.To rayle or speake yll of all men.Insectari aliquem maledictis, Vide INSECTOR.In maledicto obijcere aliquid alteri.Cic.To lay a thing reprochfully to ones charge.In maledicti vel criminis loco aliquid alicui obijcere.Cicer.To lay a thing to ones charge as a fault.Maledicti & contumeliæ loco ponere aliquid. Cice. To cast one in the teeth with a thing as a great fault or reproch.Vexare aliquem probris & maledictis.Cicer.Spitefully: to taunt, checke, and raile at one.
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mălĕdīco (or separately, mălĕ dīco; rarely in reverse order: qui bonis dicunt male, Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 10; cf. id. Trin. 4, 2, 79), xi. ctum, 3, v. n. and a. [male-dico], to speak ill of, to abuse, revile, slander, asperse; constr. absol., or with a dat. (so class.) or acc. (post-Aug.). (a).Absol.: aliud est maledicere, aliud accusare, Cic. Cael. 3, 6.—(b). With dat.: optimo viro maledicere, Cic. Deiot. 10, 28: turpissime alicui, id. N. D. 1, 33, 93: petulanter alicui, id. Cael. 3, 8: utrique, Hor. S. 2, 3, 140: Christo, Plin. Ep. 10, 97, 5; Sen. Contr. 1, 4, 1.—Impers. pass.: indignis si maledicitur, maledictum id esse dico, Plaut. Curc. 4, 2, 27; Ter. Hec. 4, 2, 14. —(g). With acc.: si me amas, maledic illam, Petr. 96; v. id. 74.—II. Esp., to curse, utter a curse upon (eccl. Lat.): populo huic, Vulg. Num. 22, 6 al.—Hence, A. mălĕdī-cens, entis, P. a., evil - speaking, foulmouthed, abusive, scurrilous (syn. maledi cus): maledicentes homines, Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 75.—Comp.: maledicentior, Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 31.—Sup.: in maledicentissimā civitate, Cic. Fl. 3, 7: carmina, Suet. Caes. 23; Nep. Alc. 11, 1.—B. mălĕdictus, a, um, P. a., accursed (post-class. for exsecrabilis): maledicte parricida, Spart. Get. 3, 3: maledictus es inter omnia animantia, Vulg. Gen. 3, 14: omnes incesti, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 6, 7 praef.—Hence, as subst.: mălĕ-dictum, i, n., a foul or abusive word. I. In gen. (class.): maledicta in aliquem dicere, Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 3, 2: in vitam alicujus conicere, id. Planc. 12, 31: maledictis figere aliquem, id. N. D. 1, 34, 93: maledicta in aliquem conferre, id. Att. 11, 8, 2: quod crimen (i. e. majestatis) non solum facto, sed et verbis impiis ac maledictis maxime exacerbatur, Paul. Sent. 5, 29, 1.—II. In partic., a curse, imprecation: esse in maledictis jam antiquis strigem, convenit, Plin. 11, 39, 95, 232: scribere maledicta, Vulg. Num. 5, 23.—B.Transf., a cursed thing: Christus factus pro nobis maledictum, Vulg. Gal. 3, 13: maledictum non erit amplius, id. Apoc. 22, 3.