Definition of "ill" []

• Not healthy; sick: I began to feel ill last week. (adjective)
• Not normal; unsound: an ill condition of body and mind. (adjective)
• Resulting in suffering; harmful or distressing: the ill effects of a misconceived policy. (adjective)
• Resulting from or suggestive of evil intentions: ill deeds committed out of spite. (adjective)
• Ascribing an objectionable quality: holds an ill view of that political group. (adjective)

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• "IV. i.35 (385,8) [that my heart means no ill] [W: tho '] _That my heart means no ill_, is the same with _to whom my heart means no ill_; the common phrase suppresses the particle, as _I mean him_ [not _to_ him] _no harm_."
• "A few weeks ago she was taken ill, and in her ill*"
• "What w ill thc}/anivver; if a defpcrate and a ftarving people, a licentious and an ill* paid foidicry tired with plundering and with deftroying each other fhould unite in requiring reaibn of them, as of the au - thors of all their evils?"