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PRONUNCIATION OF MALEFICIAL

maleficial  [ˌmælɪˈfɪʃəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MALEFICIAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Maleficial is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES MALEFICIAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of maleficial in the English dictionary

The definition of maleficial in the dictionary is abusive or hurtful.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MALEFICIAL


artificial
ˌɑːtɪˈfɪʃəl
beneficial
ˌbɛnɪˈfɪʃəl
carnificial
ˌkɑːnɪˈfɪʃəl
edificial
ˌɛdɪˈfɪʃəl
facial
ˈfeɪʃəl
inartificial
ˌɪnɑːtɪˈfɪʃəl
initial
ɪˈnɪʃəl
interracial
ˌɪntəˈreɪʃəl
judicial
dʒuːˈdɪʃəl
nonofficial
ˌnɒnəˈfɪʃəl
official
əˈfɪʃəl
orificial
ˌɒrɪˈfɪʃəl
sacrificial
ˌsækrɪˈfɪʃəl
semiofficial
ˌsɛmɪəˈfɪʃəl
spatial
ˈspeɪʃəl
superficial
ˌsuːpəˈfɪʃəl
surficial
sɜːˈfɪʃəl
unartificial
ʌnˌɑːtɪˈfɪʃəl
unbeneficial
ˌʌnˌbɛnɪˈfɪʃəl
unofficial
ˌʌnəˈfɪʃəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MALEFICIAL

maledictory
malefaction
malefactor
malefactory
malefactress
malefic
malefically
malefice
maleficence
maleficent
maleic
maleic acid
malemute
maleness
malengine
Malenkov
malentendu
Malevich
malevolence
malevolent

WORDS THAT END LIKE MALEFICIAL

altricial
cicatricial
commercial
customs official
elected official
especial
extrajudicial
financial
indicial
injudicial
nonjudicial
party official
petty official
prejudicial
quasi-judicial
rectricial
simplicial
social
tectricial
tribunicial

Synonyms and antonyms of maleficial in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «maleficial» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MALEFICIAL

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The translations of maleficial from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «maleficial» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

maleficial
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

maleficial
570 millions of speakers

English

maleficial
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

maleficial
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

maleficial
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

maleficial
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

maleficial
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

maleficial
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

maleficial
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jahat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

maleficial
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

maleficial
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

maleficial
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Maleficial
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

maleficial
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

maleficial
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनैतिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

maleficial
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

maleficial
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

maleficial
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

maleficial
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

maleficial
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

maleficial
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

maleficial
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

maleficial
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

maleficial
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of maleficial

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MALEFICIAL»

The term «maleficial» is normally little used and occupies the 142.936 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MALEFICIAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «maleficial» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «maleficial» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about maleficial

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MALEFICIAL»

Discover the use of maleficial in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to maleficial and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Constitutional Code: 9
By the practice of attaching reward to service in this shape two effects of an opposite nature, maleficial and beneficial, are liable to be produced. I. The maleficial is, the giving birth to the offence, by inducing one person to draw another into the ...
‎1843
2
The works of Jeremy Bentham, now first collected: under the ...
Example— from beneficence, maleficence ; from beneficial, maleficial. 4. By composition. The composite mode in which enrichment is performed, is perinequali- tatem, the words conjoined being in their import of unequal importance with ...
Jeremy Bentham, 1841
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Works
By the practice of attaching reward to service in this shape two effects of an opposite nature, maleficial and beneficial, are liable to be produced. 1. The maleficial is, the giving birth to the offence, by inducing one person to draw another into the ...
Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring, 1843
4
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy
But Sorrow gives stronger torments and Anguish, therefore doubtless are they both maleficial. 63. The same may be said of the Sense of the Soul. 64. Tat. Is not the Soul incorporeal, and the Sense a Body, Father? or is it rather in the Body?
William Torrey Harris, 1886
5
Renaissance and Revolution: Humanists, Scholars, Craftsmen ...
Girolamo Menghi, who wrote one of the standard texts on the subject, allowed that 'certain devout persons with or without [the office of] exorcism can undo maleficial infirmities and chase away demons from tormented bodies'.41 Since the line ...
Judith Veronica Field, J. V. Field, Frank A. J. L. James, 1997
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Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe: Studies in Culture and Belief
As we shall see, it is possible, as Briggs and Sharpe argue, that Thomas overstated the contrast between a diabolical interpretation imposed from above and a maleficial concern felt from below (pp. 534, 594-5), but if so he was very much in ...
Jonathan Barry, Marianne Hester, Gareth Roberts, 1998
7
Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus: His Divine Pymander
The Operations work indeed, but the Senses do declare and manifest the Operations, and they being bodily, are moved by the brutish parts of the Soul ; therefore, I say, they are both maleficial or doers of evil. 61. For that which affords the ...
Paschal B. Randolph, Trismeg Hermes, Paschal B. Randolph, 1996
8
Understanding Popular Culture: Europe from the Middle Ages ...
I knew that I was doing wrong, but I did it to heal them of that sickness.19 Although it is not specified that the fevers cured by Fra Geremia's procedure were of maleficial origin, a standard issue in the literature on the prevention and cure of ...
Steven L. Kaplan, 1984
9
The pymander of Hermes
The Operations work indeed, but the Senses do declare and manifest the Operations, and they being bodily, are moved by the brutish parts of the Soul ; therefore [ I say, they are both maleficial or doers of evil. 61. For that which affords the ...
Hermes (Trismegistus.), William Wynn Westcott, 1894
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Works of Jeremy Bentham
Prosecution, meaning legal pursuit. Instructional, ART. 12. As to information or original evidence. By the practice of attaching reward to service in this shape two effects of an opposite nature, maleficial and beneficial, are liable to be produced.
Jeremy Bentham, Sir John Bowring, 1843

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MALEFICIAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term maleficial is used in the context of the following news items.
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A Smoother Sidewall
If the burst is on the more violent side, you can generate particles or set up maleficial (OK, now why isn't that a word, the opposite of “beneficial” ... «EE Journal, Feb 13»

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