maleficient

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Sir Philip, as I have shown the reader, had a habit of brooding over any thing which excited much interest in his breast -- nay more, of extracting from it, by a curious sort of alchemy, essence very different from its apparent nature, sometimes bright, fine, and beneficial, and others dark and maleficient.

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  • The foundation of this opinion is accounted for by Mark Ficimis as follows:--There is a year, he tells us, assigned for each planet to rule over the body of a man, each of his turn; now Saturn being the most maleficient (malignant) planet of all, every seventh year, which falls to its lot, becomes very dangerous; especially those of sixty-three and eighty-four, when the person is already advanced in years. —  Thaumaturgia
  • Sir Philip, as I have shown the reader, had a habit of brooding over any thing which excited much interest in his breast -- nay more, of extracting from it, by a curious sort of alchemy, essence very different from its apparent nature, sometimes bright, fine, and beneficial, and others dark and maleficient. —  The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851
  • The pilot had guided the "Marguerite" on a course of about forty-five miles southward, when we approached _Northport_, Michigan, a place noteworthy for having not a single of those maleficient institutions, commonly styled beer-saloons. —  By Water to the Columbian Exposition
  • Millions of miles away from the earth, confronted on an asteroid by these diabolical monsters from a maleficient planet, who were on the point of destroying them with a strange torment of death -- perhaps it was really more than human nature, deprived of the support of human surroundings, could have been expected to bear. —  Edison's Conquest of Mars
  • (they usually worked separately) to uncover the maleficient women (or in some cases men, including, interestingly, clergymen). —  Sub Ratione Dei
 

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