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Webster 1828 Edition
Accursed
ACCURS'ED
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1.
Doomed to destruction or misery:The city shall be accursed. John 6.
2.
Separated from the faithful; cast out of the church; excommunicated.I could wish myself accursed from Christ.
3.
Worthy of the curse; detestable; execrable.Keep from the accursed thing. Josh. 6.
Hence,
4.
Wicked; malignant in the extreme.Definition 2024
accursed
accursed
English
Alternative forms
- (obsolete) accurst [13th C.]
Adjective
accursed (comparative more accursed, superlative most accursed)
- (prenominal) Hateful; detestable.
- ca. 1789, William Blake, "Tiriel",
- Accursed race of Tiriel. behold your father // Come forth & look on her that bore you. come you accursed sons.
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 35,
- Lo! they are charged with studying the accursed cabalistical secrets of the Jews, and the magic of the Paynim Saracens.
- ca. 1789, William Blake, "Tiriel",
- (archaic, theology) Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; anathematized.
- 1885, Charles Abel Heurtley (translator), The Commonitory of Vincent of Lérins, Chapter 8,
- […] —if any one, be he who he may, attempt to alter the faith once for all delivered, let him be accursed.
- 1912, Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, The Brother Karamazov, Book III, Chapter 7,
- For at the very moment I become accursed, at that same highest moment, I become exactly like a heathen […]
- 1885, Charles Abel Heurtley (translator), The Commonitory of Vincent of Lérins, Chapter 8,
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
hateful
archaic, theology: cursed
Verb
accursed
- simple past tense and past participle of accurse