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.
For other uses, see Malignancy (disambiguation). Malignancy (from Latin male, meaning 'badly', and -gnus, meaning 'born') is the tendency of a medical condition to become progressively worse. Malignancy is most familiar as a characterization of cancer.