Etymology

maleficiate

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Today it means: cursed; bewitched Full definition →

Late Latin maleficiatus
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  1. Late Latin · derived frommaleficiatus
  2. English todaymaleficiate

From Late Latin maleficiatus, past participle of maleficiare (“to bewitch”).

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