"malefacture" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "malefactūrus"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Latin malefactūrus",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "-ure",
        "pos1": "noun-forming suffix"
      },
      "expansion": "-ure (noun-forming suffix)",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin malefactūrus, future active participle of malefaciō (“to do evil or harm, to injure”) + -ure (noun-forming suffix).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "malefactures",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "malefacture (countable and uncountable, plural malefactures)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "benefacture"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ure",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1635, Tho[mas] Heywood, “The Principats”, in The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells. Their Names, Orders and Offices; The Fall of Lucifer with His Angells, London: […] Adam Islip, page 412",
          "text": "The putred Fountaine, and bitumenous VVell, / From whence all Vice and malefactures ſwell.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An act of doing evil; a criminal act; malefaction, maleficence."
      ],
      "id": "en-malefacture-en-noun-KFJ5nt72",
      "links": [
        [
          "act",
          "act"
        ],
        [
          "do",
          "do"
        ],
        [
          "evil",
          "evil"
        ],
        [
          "criminal",
          "criminal"
        ],
        [
          "malefaction",
          "malefaction"
        ],
        [
          "maleficence",
          "maleficence"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) An act of doing evil; a criminal act; malefaction, maleficence."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "malefacture"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "malefactūrus"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Latin malefactūrus",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "-ure",
        "pos1": "noun-forming suffix"
      },
      "expansion": "-ure (noun-forming suffix)",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin malefactūrus, future active participle of malefaciō (“to do evil or harm, to injure”) + -ure (noun-forming suffix).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "malefactures",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "malefacture (countable and uncountable, plural malefactures)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "benefacture"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from Latin",
        "English terms derived from Latin",
        "English terms suffixed with -ure",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 2 entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1635, Tho[mas] Heywood, “The Principats”, in The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells. Their Names, Orders and Offices; The Fall of Lucifer with His Angells, London: […] Adam Islip, page 412",
          "text": "The putred Fountaine, and bitumenous VVell, / From whence all Vice and malefactures ſwell.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An act of doing evil; a criminal act; malefaction, maleficence."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "act",
          "act"
        ],
        [
          "do",
          "do"
        ],
        [
          "evil",
          "evil"
        ],
        [
          "criminal",
          "criminal"
        ],
        [
          "malefaction",
          "malefaction"
        ],
        [
          "maleficence",
          "maleficence"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) An act of doing evil; a criminal act; malefaction, maleficence."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "malefacture"
}