maledicent
English
Etymology
From Latin maledicent.
Adjective
maledicent (comparative more maledicent, superlative most maledicent)
- (archaic) Reproachful in speech.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter X, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book VII (The Insurrection of Women), page 277:
- Did the maledicent Bodyguard, getting (as was too inevitable) better malediction than he gave, load his musketoon, and threaten to fire; nay actually fire?
- (archaic) Slanderous.
Latin
Verb
maledīcent
- third-person plural future active indicative of maledīcō