They were in its very basis, and must needs become more and more maleficent as the business fabric grew in size and complexity.
At other times the wise woman gave a perfectly recognizable description of the guilty one and offered remedies that would nullify her maleficent influences.
Beneficent men are not they who appear on platforms, pleading against the Almighty Maker's Laws; these are the maleficent men, whose lips it is pity that some authority cannot straightway shut.
Religious morality, to abolish and extirpate the maleficent act, appeals to its author, to man in his capacity of active agent.
There are, then, two means by which the maleficent act can be prevented: by the voluntary absence of the active, or by the resistance of the passive agent.
Whether the "glorious darkness" denoted by the name Satan is an actual personage or a maleficent influence, is of secondary moment as far as the aim and moral of this discourse are concerned.
Such is the contrast between beneficent business and maleficent business.
The pallid specters that glide through antique castles are ineffectual compared with the maleficent psychic invasions of modernity.
The spirits of evil seem to have a terrible cumulative force, being far more maleficent than the earlier ones, and more powerful in carrying out their purposes.
The young wife whom Douglas married, and the two children she bore him, also came in for part of her alleged maleficent enchantments.
The maleficent influence is thus elicited from the person of the sufferer and destroyed once for all.
It is, as it were, the archetype or prototype of those winged human-headed bulls and lions placed at the entrances of palaces to guard against maleficent demons.
They applied to him to exercise his maleficent power on those whom they planned to deprive of their goods.
Hence she was feared, not exactly as a maleficent deity, but as one whose business is with what is most dreaded and gloomy.
But the more refined Greeks believed for a long time that the moon was bewitched, and that the magicians made it descend from heaven to put into the herbs a certain maleficent froth.
M15 Hence it seems probable that the chief use of the fire in the fire-festivals of Europe was to destroy or repel the witches, to whose maleficent arts the people ascribed most of their troubles.
M126) Here in Europe it used to be thought that the maleficent powers of witches and wizards resided in their hair, and that nothing could make any impression on these miscreants so long as they kept their hair on.
Magic is therefore the practice of maleficent arts which involve the use of religio-magical power, with perhaps a secondary idea of the use of private arts, which are to benefit, not the community as a whole, but a single individual.
The distinction between magic and religion is to be sought not in the sympathetic character of the former, nor in any supposed necessary sequence of cause and effect, nor yet in its maleficent character.
The Banmanas of Senegambia think that the soul of a dead infant becomes for a time a wandering and maleficent spirit.
A French explorer, who had seen much of the South American Indians, tells us that "they explain everything that they experience by attributing it to sorcery, to the influence of maleficent beings.
But the use of images for this maleficent purpose was a capital crime; any person caught in the act of burying one of them in the public road would surely have been put to death.
This drives away the witches; for so far as the sound of the whips is heard, these maleficent beings can do no harm.
That kind of belief in the maleficentas well as in the beneficent powers of the dead became very prevalent in later times.
Other records of maleficent deities in serpent shape were current, and monkeys and dragons inspired similar terror.
But surely action that is maleficent to the mental and physical welfare of mankind, wherever it may be practised, is not action about which there can be any uncertainty.
The maleficent spirit is with us always, and evil has fallen upon me, and upon my work.
The same maleficent and demoniacal nature is shared in by the bats and the vampires, which I recognise in the "two winged ones entreated not to suck" of a Vedic hymn.
These maleficent powers were propitiated by blood--especially by the blood of men in the combats of the arena.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maleficent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
