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Malady(e, n. Also: -d(i)e, -deye, malladie, maledy, -d(i)e, (maleté), malidye, -é; melady, -ie, meledie, melody, mel(l)od(i)e. [ME. maladie (c 1250), maledi(e, malidy (14–15th c.), F. maladie.] Ill health, indisposition, sickness, disease; a specific disease, an ailment. Also transf. or fig.(1) a1400 Leg. S. xlvi. 255.
Gyf he mycht be Recouerit of his maledy c1420 Wynt. ii. 1293, etc.
Malady 1456 Hay I. 101/26, 228/19, II. 136/5, etc. c1490 Irland Asl. MS. I. 71/10. 14.. Edinb. Univ. MS. 27, fol. 288.
Of sum membre [to] thole tynsel Thruc maledy or wonde cruel 14.. Edinb. Univ. MS. La.ii.318.
Quhen sche has maledy That sum women has commonly c1500 Rowll Cursing 69.
Pestilence or poplisie … And mony vther maleteis c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxxi. 48.
Discretioun said, I knaw his malady 1531 Bell. Boece I. 27.
Lang and irrecoverabill malideis Ib. II. 61.
Thoucht he wes in maist uneis and maledy Ib. 62.
[To] be deliverit of al maladie 1533 Boece ii. xx. 120 b.
Ane grevous malade 1534 Yester Writs 152. 1549 Compl. 61/32. c1552 Lynd. Mon. 5129. 1557 Fam. Rose 224. 1591 Crim. Trials I. ii. 231. 1596 P. Lowe Span. Sickness ii.
The Italians callit the maladie of Naples 1622-6 Bisset II. 373/5.
The malladie of Sanct Feacre(b) c1460 Alex. (Taym.) 2772.
Quhan that the King … of his meledie was hale and feir 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 79.
[He] deceissit … of his auld meladie of ane confermit stane a1578 Pitsc. I. 362/26.
Be ressone of hir lang seiknes and melodie Ib. II. 53/28.
Ane continuall seiknes and meledie a1585 Maitl. Q. lxxxix. 12. 1592 Sc. Hist. Rev. XXXI. 97.
Sic melodeis, diseasis and infirmiteis … sic as [etc.] 1622-6 Bisset II. 373/3.
Quhat incurabill meladie it wes(2) fig. a1500 Quare Jel. 301.
In lak of hert ay stant this maladeye c1490 Irland Asl. MS. I. 10/3.
Pas … to sekere remeid for his synnis and malady c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxii. 56. a1568 Bann. MS. 219 a/39.
Medecyne my melody to amend 1567 G. Ball. 82.
Quha suld my mellodie amend? a1585 Maitl. Q. lxxxix. 42.
Thocht absence be the meladie Tormenting me 1603 Philotus lxiv.
Sen ȝe may my meladie remeid