Terms vs Malengine - What's the difference?
terms | malengine |
(label) Evil intent, bad intention; fraud, deceit.
*, Book VII:
*:I dare sey for good love she bade us to dyner and nat for no male engyne .
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , III.i:
*:the chaste damzell, that had neuer priefe / Of such malengine and fine forgerie, / Did easily beleeue her strong extremitie.
*1641 , (John Milton), Of Reformation :
*:for when the protector's brother, Lord Sudley, the admiral, through private malice and mal-engine was to lose his life, no man could be found fitter than Bishop Latimer.
