Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To do evil to; especially, to bewitch; affect with enchantments.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To bewitch; to harm.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To bewitch; to harm.

Etymologies

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Late Latin maleficiatus, past participle of maleficiare to bewitch.

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