maledicent

English

Etymology

Latin maledicent

Adjective

maledicent (comparative more maledicent, superlative most maledicent)

(archaic) reproachful in speech
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
  Did the maledicent Bodyguard, getting (as was too inevitable) better malediction than he gave, load his musketoon, and threaten to fire; and actually fire?
(archaic) slanderous

Latin

Verb

maledīcent

third-person plural future active indicative of maledīcō

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