| evil | 1. Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop. "A good tree can not bring forth evil fruit." (Matt. Vii. 18) 2. Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like. "Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, When death's approach is seen so terrible." (Shak) 3. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days. "Because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel." (Deut. Xxii. 19) "The owl shrieked at thy birth an evil sign." (Shak) "Evil news rides post, while good news baits." (Milton) Evil eye, an eye which inflicts injury by some magical or fascinating influence. It is still believed by the ignorant and superstitious that some persons have the supernatural power of injuring by a look. "It almost led him to believe in the evil eye." (J. H. Newman) Evil speaking, speaking ill of others; calumny; censoriousness. The evil one, the Devil; Satan. Evil is sometimes written as the first part of a compound (with or without a hyphen). In many cases the compounding need not be insisted on. Examples: Evil doer or evildoer, evil speakink or evil-speaking, evil worker, evil wishink, evil-hearted, evil-minded. Synonym: Mischieveous, pernicious, injurious, hurtful, destructive, wicked, sinful, bad, corrupt, perverse, wrong, vicious, calamitious. Origin: OE. Evel, evil, ifel, uvel, AS. Yfel; akin to OFries, evel, D. Euvel, OS. & OHG. Ubil, G. Ubel, Goth. Ubils, and perh. To E. Over. 1. Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; opposed to good. "Evils which our own misdeeds have wrought." (Milton) "The evil that men do lives after them." (Shak) 2. Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity. "The heart of the sons of men is full of evil." (Eccl. Ix. 3) 3. Malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula. "He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched for the evil." (Addison) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| evilness | The condition or quality of being evil; badness; viciousness; malignity; vileness; as, evilness of heart; the evilness of sin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| poll evil | Suppurative inflammation of the cranial nuchal (atlantal) bursa that lies between the atlas and the cranial end of the ligamentum nuchae in the horse. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| stag-evil | <veterinary> A kind of palsy affecting the jaw of a horse. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| quarter evil | 1. A notorious gambler. 2. A disease among calves and sheep, characterised by a settling of gelatinous matter in the legs, and sometimes in the neck. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| joint evil | joint ill |
| king's evil | The historic designation for scrofula (tuberculosis, lymph node). The disease is so called from the belief that it could be healed by the touch of a king. This term is used only for historical articles using the name "king's evil", and is to be differentiated from scrofula as lymph node tuberculosis in modern clinical medicine. (12 Dec 1998) |
| evil |
morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds" morally objectionable behavior having the nature of vice that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune; "the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones"- Shakespeare tending to cause great harm the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice; "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world" malefic: having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force"
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| evil eye |
a look that is believed to have the power of inflicting harm
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is the antithesis of good in all its principal senses, in the widest sense, evil is that which is the reverse of good, whatever is censurable, mischievous, or undesirable, morally depraved, bad, wicked, vicious; doing or tending to do harm, hurtful, mischievous, prejudicial, depraved intention or purpose, desire for another
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Dreaming of evil elements, of evil doing dream characters or of participating in an evil act, is direct suggestion that the dreamer is in conflict within themselves. Acknowledging a "wrong" action, attitude or approach from a waking life situation, the dreamer manifests this moral dilemma on the dream plane.
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Things that are not of God.
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| evil | morally objectionable behavior |
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| evil | the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice |
| evil | that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune |
| evil | having or exerting a malignant influence |
| evil | tending to cause great harm |
| evil | morally bad or wrong |
| evil | having the nature of vice |
| evil | a look that is believed to have the power of inflicting harm |
| evil | a spirit tending to cause harm |
| evil | having evil thoughts or intentions |
| evil | a person who sins (without repenting) |
| evil | the act of transgressing |
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