malitious

Obsolete form of malicious.

Adjective

  1. Obsolete form of malicious.
    • And novv, if you are a Malitious Reader, I expect you ſhould return upon me, that I affect to be thought more Impartial than I am. - 1681, [John Dryden], “To the Reader”, in Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem, London: […]...

Origin

From Latin malitiōsus.

Forms

more malitious most malitious

Derived

malitiously