evil sb.1 (1 the commonest S. sense)
1.
sin, crime
Meas. II. ii. 91
“to do that ,”
R3 I. ii. 76
“Of these supposed
e-s”
(Ff “Crimes) . . . to
acquit myself,”
Lucr. 972
“the dire thought of his
committed evil.”
2.
misfortune, calamity
Tw.N. II. i. 7
“bear my e-s
alone,”
H8 II. i. 141, Cæs. II. ii. 81,
Oth. I. i. 161.
3.
disease, malady
AYL. II. vii. 67
“all the embossed sores
and headed e-s,”
Wint. II. iii. 56, John III. iv. 114, Cor. I. i. 185; “the ,” the King's
evil, scrofula Mac. IV. iii.
146.
