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See Evil eye under Evil, a.
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v. t.
To change the form, quality, aspect, or effect of; to alter; to metamorphose; to convert; to transform; -- often with to or into before the word denoting the effect or product of the change; as, to turn a worm into a winged insect; to turn green to blue; to turn prose into verse; to turn a Whig to a Tory, or a Hindu to a Christian; to turn good to evil, and the like.
a.
Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.
a.
Possessed of the supposed evil eye; also, looking with envy, jealousy, or bad design; malicious.
a.
Marked by infelicity; evil; calamitous; as, an unhappy day.
adv.
In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.
a.
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.
n.
That which tries or afflicts; that which harasses; that which tries the character or principles; that which tempts to evil; as, his child's conduct was a sore trial.
n.
malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.
a.
Having evil dispositions or intentions; disposed to mischief or sin; malicious; malignant; wicked.
adv.
In an evil manner; not well; ill.
n.
The condition or quality of being evil; badness; viciousness; malignity; vileness; as, evilness of heart; the evilness of sin.
prep.
Denoting relation to some thing or person that is superior, weighs upon, oppresses, bows down, governs, directs, influences powerfully, or the like, in a relation of subjection, subordination, obligation, liability, or the like; as, to travel under a heavy load; to live under extreme oppression; to have fortitude under the evils of life; to have patience under pain, or under misfortunes; to behave like a Christian under reproaches and injuries; under the pains and penalties of the law; the condition under which one enters upon an office; under the necessity of obeying the laws; under vows of chastity.
a.
Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.
n.
The evil and malicious disposition of Satan; a diabolical spirit.
a.
To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from impending danger; as, to save a house from the flames.
v. t.
To free from possession by a devil or evil spirit; to exorcise.
n.
Spite; malice; malignity; evil quality. Chaucer.
a.
Evil; wicked; atrocious.
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Not righteous; evil; wicked; sinful; as, an unrighteous man.
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