Malignus, Adiectiuum. Ter. Wicked: naughty: malicious: enuious: cruell: harde: couetous: spating.Homo maligous & inuidus. Plin. A malicious and enuious person.Fama maligna alicui.Ouid.Fame nothing fauourable to one.Mente maligna facere aliquid. Cato. Of anaughty minde.Oculi maligni.Virg.Hatefull or enuious eies.Vulgus malignum. Hor. In laudandis discipulorum dictionibus necmalignus, nec effusus. Quint. Neither to much a nyggard, nor yer ouerliberall in praifing, &c.Maligous ager.Virg.Plin. iun.An yll and barraine grounde hard to be brought to tilth.Aditus maligni.Virg.Streict and hard entries.Maligna lox.Virg.A dunme light.Malignitas pen. corr. malignitâtis, f. g. Plaut.Wickednesse: malignitie: naughtinesse: enuye: malice: yll will: niggardship havdnesse.Fortunæ malignitas.Plin. iun.The malice or frowardnesse of fortune hindering a man.Maligmtas prædæ partitæ: cui opponitur Prodiga largitio.Liu.Hardenesse or niggardnesse in parting the pray.Malignitas.Liu.Niggardnesse. vt, Malignitas conferendi ex priuato. Liu.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
mălignus, a, um, adj. [for maligenus, malus, and gen-, root of gigno; cf. the opp. benignus], of an evil nature or disposition, ill-disposed, wicked, mischievous, malicious, spiteful, envious, malignant, malign (poet. and post-Aug.; syn.: invidus, malevolus, parcus). I. In gen.: maligni caupones, Hor. S. 1, 5, 4: magnaque numinibus vota exaudita malignis,
unkind
, Juv. 10, 111.— Of inanim. and abstr. things: malignissima capita, Sen. Vit. Beat. 18: litus, Luc. 8, 565: portus, id. 5, 651: leges, Ov. M. 10, 329: votum, Cat. 67, 5: verba, Manil. 4, 573: mente malignā, Cat. 68, 37: studia, Ov. Tr. 4, 1, 101: vulgus, Hor. C. 2, 16, 40: oculi, Verg. A. 5, 654.—II. In partic. A.Stingy, niggardly: malignus, largus, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 2, 17.—Of favors, Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 84: vagae ne parce malignus arenae ossibus particulam dare, Hor. C. 1, 28, 23.—Trop.: fama, Ov. H. 16, 143: in laudandis dictionibus, Quint. 2, 2, 6.—B.Transf.1.Barren, unfruitful: terra malignior ceteris, Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 15: colles, Verg. G. 2, 179.—2.Scanty, insufficient, dim, petty, small, narrow: ostium,
too narrow
, Sen. Q. N. 3, 27: aditus, Verg. A. 11, 525: ignis, Mart. 10, 96, 7: lux, Verg. A. 6, 270: conspecta est parva maligna Unda procul venā, Luc. 9, 500: munus, Plin. 7, 50, 51, 167.—Hence, adv.: mălignē. 1. In gen., ill-naturedly, spitefully, enviously, malignantly (not in Cic. or Cæs.): maledice ac maligne loqui, Liv. 45, 39.—Comp.: malignius habitum esse sermonem, Curt. 8, 1, 8.—2. In partic. a.Stingily, grudgingly: ager maligne plebi divisus, Liv. 8, 12: famem exstinguere,
sparingly
, Sen. Ep. 18, 9: non mihi fuit tam maligne, ut, etc., it has not gone so poorly with me that, etc., Cat. 10, 18: dispensare, Sen. Ben. 6, 16, 7: laudare, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 209.—Comp.: dicis, malignius tecum egisse naturam, Sen. Ep. 44, 1.—b.Little, scantily: terra eorum, quae seruntur, maligne admodum patiens,