malepart

adj

1. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete form of malapert.

   “For aſſure your ſelues, and before God I proteſt, I ſpeake not againſt one in particuler, neither againſt all in generall, vpon a malepart or preſumptuous minde, as not caring who are offended with my doinges; but carefull leaſt I ſhould offende any, or incurre their diſpleaſures, by my preſumptuous enterpriſe, I humbly (as before) pray pardon.”

   “Alice Driuer martyr. This was the doctrix of the forſaid weauer, who was ſo malepart and contumelious before the iudges, as firſt her eares were cutt of, for callinge Q. Mary Iezabell.”

   “[…] malepart fellow that being infected with hereſie, behaued himſelfe very immodeſtly towards the Biſhopps of VVincheſter and Rocheſter when he appeared before them, and was for defendinge diuers peeuiſh hereſies condemned by them. See ibid. num. 47. […] 30. VVilliam Tymes was a Curate or deacon: but ſo pratchant and malepart, as he ouerwent the miniſter in his forwardnes of anſwering.”

   “If any man be ſo incredulous or ſo malepart, as to contend, ſi quis contentioſus eſſe velit, it may ſuffice for anſwere to all his obiectious, We have no ſuch cuſtome in the Catcholicke Church, as S. Paul anſwered to the Corinthians.”