Richard Briers starred as Hector in the first three series of Monarch of the Glen from 2000 to 2002 (and as a guest in series 7 in 2005), a role which saw him return to the limelight. He contributed Sonnet 55 to the 2002 compilation album, When Love Speaks, which features famous actors and musicians interpreting Shakespeare's sonnets and play excerpts.
Wiktionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: malign (Verb). To make defamatory statements about someone or something. malign (Adjective). evil or malignant in disposition, nature, intent or influence. malign (Adjective). malevolent. Origin: Via French from Latin malignus, from malus + genus. Compare benign.
malignant For something that's very harmful, especially a tumor that's cancerous, use the term malignant. Malignant and its opposite benign are medical terms used to describe a tumor or growth as either cancerous or not respectively. The gn part of both words comes from the Latin word for born, differing in the prefix mal evil and bene kind. A malignant tumor grows uncontrollably and spreads to other parts of the body. Though less common, malignant can also be used to mean evil, malicious like when someone has a malignant imagination.