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malefai

Malefai is an interesting name that is almost never used. There's many ways to explain a person with this name, usually they're a male who carries this name. They're known to be really nice but protective to those he (or she) cares about. They usually enjoy joking around with others and try to make people around him (or her) in higher spirits.
"Thanks Malefai, that was really nice of you."
by Malefai July 23, 2018
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maleficus

Maleficus is latin for mischevious or evil-doing. It is often used as a loose translation for evil-doer.
Maleficus Animus = evil soul, or a soul that performs evil deeds.
by The Real Meaning June 20, 2006
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Malemaism

An incoherent statement made by Julius Malema that only those with a similarly low IQ can comprehend.

A crude mixture of absurd, hilarious and hateful.

South Africa's answer to a Bushism.
An example of some Malemaism's.

"I would rather kill myself than commit suicide"

"Helen Zille (an opposition leader) dances like she misses apartheid"

"Caster Semanye (female athlete) HE is not a hermaphrodite"

"Helen Zille is not original but it plastic and cannot stand in the heat. But when you look at her pictures before the makeover, she looks like an apartheid spy"
by VryeBoer March 16, 2010
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Malleus Maleficarum

A witch-hunter's guidebook, written in 1486 by German Dominican monks Jakob Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer, and arguably one of the most blood-soaked and hateful books in history.

The main purpose of the "Malleus Maleficarum", or "The Hammer Against Witches", was to refute all arguments that witchcraft did not exist, refute those who were skeptical about its reality, to prove that witches were more often women than men, and to educate magistrates on the how to find witches and convict them.

This book reflects that Sprenger and Kramer not only severely lacked a sense of humor and were obsessed with sex, but also that they had major issues with women; the book singles women out as the weaker sex, weaker in faith, lustful and easy by nature, and thus easy prey for Satan's coaxing. The men even went so far as to state the etymology of "femina" (Latin for "woman") as "fe" ("faith") + "minus" ("less"), which it is not.

Indeed, the book uses the exclusively feminine "malefica" rather than the masculine (and more inclusive) "maleficus" to denote witches, a strong implication that only women were witches in their eyes. Also, Sprenger and Kramer stated that old women and Jews were most likely witches and should never be trusted.

The Malleus Maleficarum accuses witches of cannibalistic infanticide, casting evil spells to harm their enemies, and holding the power to steal men’s penises (even make them come to life). It goes on to give accounts of witches committing these crimes.

The Malleus also delves deeply into the Bible, astrology, and philosophy, as this book was published during the Renaissance.

This whole book is one long tirade not just against women, but also heretics, independent thinkers, romantic lovers, the sensitive passions, human sexuality, and compassion.
The reasoning and logic used are bewilderingly outlandish... as horrible as the the images and reasoning are, they are also so ridiculous that it would be funny if the subject matter were not so grim.

Amazingly, in its day, this book of intolerance and persecution was second most popular after the Bible.
Thousands of innocents were killed because of Sprenger and Kramer, because of the hysteria and paranoia that they sparked, eventually leading to the Burning Times.
"What else is a woman but a foe to friendship-! They are evil, lecherous, vain, and lustful. All witchcraft comes from carnal lust, which is, in women, insatiable."
-The Malleus Maleficarum

That sums up the tone of the book. Here's more:

"When a woman thinks alone, she thinks evil."

“For though the devil tempted Eve to sin, yet Eve seduced Adam. And as the sin of Eve would not have brought death to our soul and body unless the sin had afterwards passed on to Adam, to which he was tempted by Eve, not by the devil, therefore she is more bitter than death.” (Kramer, Question 6)

"She is a liar by nature."

"...they have slippery tongues... they are intellectually like children... she is more carnal than a man, as is clear from her many carnal abominations."

And on and on; it's basically the work of two sexually repressed, frustrated monks who were so alienated towards women that the only way that they could deal with women was to slander them. They basically claimed that women were frivolous, stupid, dirty, weak, emotionally unstable, faithless trollops who were up to no good.

Because of the Malleus Maleficarum, women could be accused to witchcraft because a few men had an erotic dream about her or because she made a correct prediction about the weather or some other mundane thing that could be logically explained.
by Lorelili February 21, 2009
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Malebait

An attractive underage male. Similar to the female version, only not female. For similarities, see "Jailbait" or any of its other forms, but replace female with male, girl with boy/guy, chick with dude, her with him/he, etc.
Cougar-ette (Female in 20s) #1: Oh, wow! That guy is so hot. I want him.

Cougar-ette #2: Oh no way girl! He looks like he's 15 - that's totes malebait!
by Black Smoke Monster May 22, 2009
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to pull a Maleficent

to gatecrash a party or an event in a spiteful manner, named after the evil fairy (also named Maleficent) in "Sleeping Beauty"
"I'm worried my ex is going to pull a Maleficent and ruin the party."
by The Jarvmeister September 19, 2009
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maleficent

a badass bitch. one of the many disney villians.
Maleficent was the main villian in Disney's classic Sleepign Beauty.
by JasmineHHH November 13, 2006
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