2. Fig.: Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed;
very susceptible of irritation.
Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious,
and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy.
--Tillotson.
3. Severe; afflictive; distressing; as, a sore disease; sore
evil or calamity. --Shak.
4. Criminal; wrong; evil. [Obs.] --Shak.
{Sore throat} (Med.), inflammation of the throat and tonsils;
pharyngitis. See {Cynanche}.
{Malignant}, {Ulcerated} or {Putrid}, {sore throat}. See
{Angina}, and under {Putrid}.
2. (Eng. Hist.) One of the adherents of Charles L. or Charles
LL.; -- so called by the opposite party.
A malignant and a turbaned Turk. --Shak.
2. Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious.
``Malignant care.'' --Macaulay.
Some malignant power upon my life. --Shak.
Something deleterious and malignant as his touch.
--Hawthorne.
3. (Med.) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal
issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria.
{Malignant pustule} (Med.), a very contagious disease,
transmitted to man from animals, characterized by the
formation, at the point of reception of the virus, of a
vesicle or pustule which first enlarges and then breaks
down into an unhealthy ulcer. It is marked by profound
exhaustion and usually fatal. Called also {charbon}, and
sometimes, improperly, {anthrax}.