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.

Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.

Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; -- opposed to good.

Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity.

A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, but has now to be treated by the physicians. Thus 'the most pious Edward" of England used to lay his royal hand upon the ailing subjects and make them whole -- a crowd of wretched souls That stay his cure: their malady convinces The great essay of art; but at his touch, Such sanctity hath Heaven given his hand, They presently amend,as the "Doctor" in _Macbeth_ hath it. This useful property of the royal hand could, it appears, be transmitted along with other crown properties; for according to "Malcolm," 'tis spoken To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction. But the gift somewhere dropped out of the line of succession: the later sovereigns of England have not been tactual healers, and the disease once honored with the name "king's evil" now bears the humbler one of "scrofula," from _scrofa_, a sow. The date and author of the following epigram are known only to the author of this dictionary, but it is old enough to show that the jest about Scotland's national disorder is not a thing of yesterday. Ye Kynge his evill in me laye, Wh. he of Scottlande charmed awaye. He layde his hand on mine and sayd: "Be gone!" Ye ill no longer stayd. But O ye wofull plyght in wh. I'm now y-pight: I have ye itche! The superstition that maladies can be cured by royal taction is dead, but like many a departed conviction it has left a monument of custom to keep its memory green. The practice of forming a line and shaking the President's hand had no other origin, and when that great dignitary bestows his healing salutation on strangely visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery,he and his patients are handing along an extinguished torch which once was kindled at the altar-fire of a faith long held by all classes of men. It is a beautiful and edifying "survival" -- one which brings the sainted past close home in our "business and bosoms."

Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.

malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.

In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.

Things that are not of God.

the same as sin. From God’s point of view, evil and sin are the same thing. Even though no one likes to think of themselves as evil, it is a truth we must all come to terms with.

a thing, not a person

Anything which impedes evolutionary development.

an organization of immortals which was headquartered in Hell. The group was unofficially led by Michael "Warlock" Ferier, and was responsible for the so-called Apocalypse. Other members include Ryan "Plasman" Hunter, Scott "Bloodstreak" Ferier, Daniel "Ballistic Boy" Shephard, Thranade mo "Demonik" Nika'thraga, and James "Elemental" Rayne.

Scott Peck defines evil as that which kills, the body as well as the spirit.

A dream involving an evil atmosphere or evil spirits predicts unaccountable obstacles to your current ambitions; you would do well to consider a change of direction and/or objectives.

The most serious form of blockage to personal growth, caused by a refusal to face one's own "shadow". Peck ( PL 177) de­fines evil as: "The exercise of political power-that is, the imposition of one's will upon others by overt or covert coercion-in order to avoid ... spiritual growth." Always aims at confusing the opponent.