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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.

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accursed

accursed

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accursed (comparative more accursed, superlative most accursed)

  1. (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.
  2. (archaic, theology) Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; anathematized.

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accursed

  1. simple past tense and past participle of accurse

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