Definition of Malefices

1. malefice [n] - See also: malefice

Lexicographical Neighbors of Malefices

malefaction
malefactions
malefactor
malefactors
malefactour
malefactours
malefactress
malefactresses
malefeasance
malefeasances
malefic
malefice
maleficence
maleficences
maleficent
malefices (current term)
maleficial
maleficiate
maleficiation
maleficience
maleficient
maleformation
maleformations
maleic
maleic acid
maleic anhydrides
maleic hydrazide
maleimide
maleimides
maleless

Literary usage of Malefices

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Domestic Annals of Scotland: From the Revolution to the Rebellion of 1745 by Robert Chambers (1861)
"Fortified with a certificate from the presbytery of Dumfries, who were 'fully convinced of the guilt [of the women] and of the many malefices committed by ..."

2. Celebrated Trials of All Countries: And Remarkable Cases of Criminal by comp John Jay Smith, John Jay] [Smith (1843)
"... in the examination of witnesses, who gave testimony that the malefices ... and that the prisoners were the authors of these malefices; after five of the ..."

3. A History of the Witches of Renfrewshire by Thomson Gale (Firm) (1877)
"The extraordinariness of the malefices; the probability of the concurring ... As to the first part, the malefices, or corpora delicti, are proven by ..."

4. Domestic Annals of Scotland: From the Reformation to the Revolution by Robert Chambers (1874)
"Fortified with a certificate from the presbytery of Dumfries, who were ' fully convinced of the guilt [of the women] and of the many malefices committed by ..."

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