maledicere

First, by way of assertion, as when a thing is expressed in the indicative mood: in this way _maledicere_ signifies simply to tell someone of another's evil, and this pertains to backbiting, wherefore tellers of evil (_maledici_) are sometimes called backbiters.

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

At Numidae saepe antea vineis Romanorum subversis, item incensis, non castelli moenibus sese tutabantur; sed pro muro dies noctesque agitare, maledicere Romanis ac Mario vecordiam objectare; militibus nostris Jugurthae servitium minari, secundis rebus feroces esse.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

_I answer that, _ To curse (_maledicere_) is the same as to speak ill

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

Some commentators are so fanciful as to say, that the repetition of the words ‘sub aqua,’ in the line ‘Quamvis sint sub aquâ, sub aquâ, maledicere tentant,’ not inelegantly [non ineleganter] expresses the croaking noise of the frogs.

The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847

: _Senatori maledicere non licet, remaledicere jus fasque est_.

Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807

Adieci etiam quasdam Biblie aliorumque autorum concordancias in margine notatas quo singula magis lectoribus illucescant: Simul ad inuidorum caninos latratus pacandos: et rabida ora obstruenda: qui vbi quid facinorum: quo ipsi scatent: reprehensum audierint. continuo patulo gutture liuida euomunt dicta, scripta dilacerant. digna scombris ac thus carmina recensent: sed hi si pergant maledicere: vt stultiuagi comites classem insiliant.

The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 Sebastian Brant 1489

„ Fuisse virum omnino liberum, et fiducia quadam uti solitum, nec cunciantem maledicere, si vel maxime lae - surus viderelur, qui in bilem iamborum suorum inci - disseit.

Iambographorum principis reliquiae, quas accuratius collegit, adnotationibus virorum doctorum suisque animadversionibus illustravit et praemissa de vita et scriptis poetae commentatione nunc seorsum edidit Ignatius Liebel Liebel, Ignaz 1812

JBenedicite enim inimkos viflm + inquit Apoftdlus, be~ riediciie & noliie maledicere.

Opera omnia sanctorum patrum graecorum: graece et latine 1784

Sedquis homincm mcnteejfe alicnatum nonyidet, r fanCio coniugto tapetulater maledicere nonyereatur?

Ioannis Calvini Opuscula omnia in unum volumen collecta : Quibus accessit libellus nuc primùm editus, De aeterna Dei praedestinatione, adversus Albertù Pighium Campensem, & Georgium Siculum. Locorum sacrae Scripturae in his opusculis obiter interpretatoru index 1552

(sed nolo libro sanctissimo quicquam tetrius præfari, nec qaos ille inter preces nominat, maledicere) nihil, inquam, egistis hoc parricidio, nisi quod famam illius et immortalitatem cum æterno vestro probro et scelere conjunxistis.

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle