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Malic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pertaining to apples; drawn from the juice of apples; as malic acid.

Malic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pertaining to, or obtained from, apples; as, malic acid.

Malice [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Extreme enmity of heart, or malevolence; a disposition to injure others without cause, from mere personal gratification or from a spirit of revenge; unprovoked malignity or spite.

2. --Nor set down aught in malice

Malice [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To regard with extreme ill will. [Not used.]

Malice [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Enmity of heart; malevolence; ill will; a spirit delighting in harm or misfortune to another; a disposition to injure another; a malignant design of evil.

2. Any wicked or mischievous intention of the mind; a depraved inclination to mischief; an intention to vex, annoy, or injure another person, or to do a wrongful act without just cause or cause or excuse; a wanton disregard of the rights or safety of others; willfulness.

Malice [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To regard with extreme ill will.

Malicho [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Mischief.

Malicious [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Harboring ill will or enmity without provocation; malevolent in the extreme; malignant in heart.

2. I grant him bloody,

3. Sudden, malicious smacking of every sin

4. That has a name.

5. Proceeding from extreme hatred or ill will; dictated by malice; as a malicious report.

Malicious [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Indulging or exercising malice; harboring ill will or enmity.

2. Proceeding from hatred or ill will; dictated by malice; as, a malicious report; malicious mischief.

3. With wicked or mischievous intentions or motives; wrongful and done intentionally without just cause or excuse; as, a malicious act.

Maliciously [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

With malice; with extreme enmity or ill will; with deliberate intention to injure.

Maliciousness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The quality of being malicious; extreme enmity or disposition to injure; malignity.

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Exodus 23:1

Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.

Numbers 35:20

But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die;

Likewise, if anyone maliciously pushes another or intentionally throws an object at him and kills him,

Deuteronomy 4:42

That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:

to which a manslayer could flee after killing his neighbor unintentionally without prior malice. To save one’s own life, he could flee to one of these cities:

Joshua 20:5

And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.

Now if the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not surrender the manslayer into his hand, because that man killed his neighbor accidentally without prior malice.

Job 6:30

Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

Is there iniquity on my tongue? Can my mouth not discern malice?

Psalms 10:7

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.

Psalms 28:3

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

Do not drag me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while malice is in their hearts.

Psalms 35:19

Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.

Psalms 41:5

Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

My enemies say with malice: “When will he die and be forgotten?”

Psalms 55:10

Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.

Day and night they encircle the walls, while malice and trouble lie within.

Psalms 73:8

They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.

They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.

Isaiah 58:9

Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;

Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry out, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you remove the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger and malicious talk,

Lamentations 3:60

Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.

You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.

Ezekiel 25:15

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because the Philistines acted in vengeance, taking vengeance with malice of soul to destroy Judah with ancient hostility,

Daniel 3:8

Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews.

At this time some astrologers came forward and maliciously accused the Jews,

Romans 1:29

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

1 Corinthians 5:8

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

Ephesians 4:31

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice.

Colossians 3:8

But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.