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See also:MALIGNANT (See also:Lat. malignus, evil-disposed, from maligenus) , wicked, of a malicious or wilfully evil disposition . The word was See also:early applied by the Protestants to the Romanists, with an allusion to the " See also:congregation of evil doers " (See also:Vulgate Ecclesiam malignantium) of See also:Psalm See also:xxvi . 5 . In See also:English See also:history, during the See also:Great See also:Rebellion, the name was given to the Royalists by the See also:Parliamentary party . In the Great Remonstrance of 1641 occur the words "the See also:malignant' partie, wherof the See also:Archbishop (See also:Laud) and the See also:earl of See also:Strafford being heads." The name throughout the See also:period had See also:special reference to the religious See also:differences between the parties . In medical See also:science, the See also:term " malignant " is applied to a particularly virulent or dangerous See also:form which a disease may take, or to a See also:tumour or growth of rapid growth, See also:extension to the lymphatic glands, and recurrence after operation . |
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