male2t

An obsolete form of mail2. male3t, a. [ It. male = Sp. Pg. mal = F. mal, an evil). Hence, from L. mal us, E. malice, mal ady, mal-, etc.] Bad; evil; wicked. Examples of this word in English are rare, it being almost always compounded with the following noun. (See mal-.) The Lord Cromwell wold have excused hymself of all the steryng of moevyng of the male journey of Seynt Albones. Paston Letters , I. 345.