maledicent

English

Etymology

From Latin maledicent.

Adjective

maledicent (comparative more maledicent, superlative most maledicent)

1. (archaic) Reproachful in speech.
   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter X, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book VII (The Insurrection of Women), page 277:

     Did the maledicent Bodyguard, getting (as was too inevitable) better malediction than he gave, load his musketoon, and threaten to fire; nay actually fire?

2. (archaic) Slanderous.

Latin

Verb

maledīcent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of maledīcō