A.spiteful, malignant, resentful, “ἀλλά τις οὐκ ἔμμι παλιγκότων ὄργαν” Sapph.72; κληδόνες π. injurious, untoward reports, A.Ag.863, 874; π. τύχη the spitefulness of fortune, ib.571; “πῆμα” Pi.O.2.20; π. ὄψιν ἰδοῦσα a dreadful sight, Mosch.4.92; “τὰ π. λέγειν” Antipho Soph. 49.
2. of persons, hostile, malignant, τινι Ar.Pax390, Euph.51.12, etc.; “πρὸς πάντα π.” Theoc.22.58; οἱ παλίγκοτοι adversaries, Pi.N. 4.96, A.Supp.376. Adv., αὐτῷ . . -τως συνεφέρετο it fared ill with him, Hdt.4.156; φέρειν τὰ συμπίπτοντα μὴ π. to bear accidents not resentfully, E.Fr.572.2.
II. metaph., of wounds or injuries, growing malignant, festering, Hp.Art.27 (Sup.).