4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sore \Sore\, a. [Compar. {Sorer}; superl. {Sorest}.] [OE. sor,
sar, AS s[=a]r; akin to D. zeer, OS & OHG. s?r, G. sehr
very Icel. s[=a]rr, Sw s[*a]r, Goth. sair pain. Cf
{Sorry}.]
1. Tender to the touch; susceptible of pain from pressure;
inflamed; painful; -- said of the body or its parts as a
sore hand.
2. Fig.: Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed;
very susceptible of irritation.
Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious,
and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy.
--Tillotson.
3. Severe; afflictive; distressing; as a sore disease; sore
evil or calamity. --Shak.
4. Criminal; wrong evil. [Obs.] --Shak.
{Sore throat} (Med.), inflammation of the throat and tonsils;
pharyngitis. See {Cynanche}.
{Malignant}, {Ulcerated} or {Putrid}, {sore throat}. See
{Angina}, and under {Putrid}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Malignant \Ma*lig"nant\, n.
1. A man of extrems enmity or evil intentions. --Hooker.
2. (Eng. Hist.) One of the adherents of Charles L. or Charles
LL.; -- so called by the opposite party.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Malignant \Ma*lig"nant\, a. [L. malignans -antis, p. pr of
malignare malignari to do or make maliciously. See
{Malign}, and cf {Benignant}.]
1. Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress;
actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently
inimical; bent on evil; malicious.
A malignant and a turbaned Turk. --Shak.
2. Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious.
``Malignant care.'' --Macaulay.
Some malignant power upon my life. --Shak.
Something deleterious and malignant as his touch.
--Hawthorne.
3. (Med.) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal
issue; virulent; as malignant diphtheria.
{Malignant pustule} (Med.), a very contagious disease,
transmitted to man from animals, characterized by the
formation, at the point of reception of the virus, of a
vesicle or pustule which first enlarges and then breaks
down into an unhealthy ulcer. It is marked by profound
exhaustion and usually fatal. Called also {charbon}, and
sometimes improperly, {anthrax}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
malignant
adj 1: (pathology) characterized by progressive and uncontrolled
growth (especially of a tumor); "a malignant tumor"
2: extremely malevolent or malicious; "the malignant tongues of
gossipers" [syn: {malevolent}]
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