Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Archaic A curse.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A formal malediction; a special curse invoked or denounced; a form of words expressing a curse; a curse.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A curse.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Poetic Malediction; curse; execration.
Etymologies
- From Old French malison, from Latin maledictiō, from the past participle stem of maledīcō ("I speak ill of"), from male ("wickedly, badly") + dīcō ("say, speak"). Compare malediction. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English malisoun, from Old French maleiçon, from Latin maledictiō, maledictiōn-, from maledictus, past participle of maledīcere, to speak ill, curse; see maledict. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The malison of her muliebrity allows niddering males opportunity for oppugnant vilipend.”
“Reproof with threats sore terror, frightful malison.”
“Yet, for men's sakes whom thy vast malison Must wither innocent of enmity, Be not withdrawn, dark arm, thy spoilure done, Safe to the bosom of our prosperity.”
“The mother puts her malison, or curse, upon him, but he rides off.”
Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series
“Or else they may dread the malison that all men have who will not do them, when they had goods to do them with.”
“Glasgow was the most loathsome den north of Tweed, almost the only such den, -- his malison upon Glasgow!”
“Would her father's curse be on her, or the still heavier malison of a creature mansworn, false to her dearest vow?”
“I give to thee in my steads of Walbrugham, from me and mine to thee and thine aye and for ever; and God's malison on his head who this gainsays! '”
“She laid a malison on my chauffeur's potatoes -- I had one once -- and (as he told me) blighted the year's crop.”
“Does a bookseller misdirect a parcel, he exclaims, 'My malison on all Blockheadisms and Torpid Infidelities of which this world is full.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘malison’.
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phrontistery - m
from phrontistery.info
malm, marc, marl, maya, mazy, meet, mel, mew, mewling, mho, miasma, micaceous and 898 more...
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Dirty Deeds, Acts & Villainous Arcana
Villains, evildoers, and the wonderful words to describe them.
putsch, internecine, galère, stygian, infernal, opprobrium, anathema, bruit, scurrility, mulct, misanthropic, invective and 102 more...
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Collected Words - List 2
I've been saving these words FOR YEARS. Now, I've found Wordie
gasconade, zaccheus, spoor, precentor, bombazine, otiose, khamsin, bruited, viva voce, whilom, lenitive, ebullition and 244 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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words that would make excellent names...
brimborion, crepuscule, anabaena, cachexia, boron, dermacentor, galactivore, archenteron, scolopax, gingiva, norovirus, mulligrub and 10 more...
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Most Obscure Words
acatalectic, acosmism, acuate, acuminate, adscititious, adytum, akratisma, alieniloquy, allelomorph, allochiria, allodium, alnage and 620 more...
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jeffreytwhitney's list
abecedarian, assonance, prolix, avuncular, baleful, borborygmus, accismus, atavism, catachresis, coruscant, callipygian, carbuncle and 117 more...
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juv3nal's Words
ligature, hermeneutic, caduceus, prelapsarian, apophenia, pataphor, lipogram, epinephrine, ludic, samizdat, oulipo, oulipopo and 194 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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Spelling Bee list 2011
Abalone, ablution, absolution, aboriginally, abstemious, academician, acclamation, accommodation, acculturation, acetic, acetone, acme and 590 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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19 c.
some of the interesting words i've had to look up while reading 19th century lit
maugre, connate, alembic, azote, vaticination, valetudinarian, dight, scutcheon, lammergeyer, chamois, asseverate, prebendary and 199 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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Words I Learned on FreeRice.com
A place for me to keep all these weird words, whether I guessed them correctly or not.
pennoncel, serval, tautological, redact, ganef, candent, shaitan, bifid, osteal, ensiform, helve, ecdysis and 100 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 1991 more...
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richardr's Words
marmoreal, osteology, tyromancy, metalepsis, idioglossia, tapinosis, epicaricacy, carromancy, rogation, senex, aulic, gemütlichkeit and 279 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for malison.
jaime_d From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution Mar 6, 2011
whichbe Curse, malediction. (From WWFTD)
Also a funny taunt for someone named Alison. Jun 6, 2008