Word Meanings - CURSEDLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In a cursed manner; miserably; in a manner to be detested; enormously.
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- DETESTABLY
In a detestable manner. - CURSORIAL
Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves. Of or pertaining to the Cursores. - ENORMOUSLY
In an enormous degree. - CURSEDLY
In a cursed manner; miserably; in a manner to be detested; enormously. - CURST
imp. & p.p. of Curse. - CURSED
Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable. Let us fly this cursed place. Milton. This cursed quarrel be no more renewed. Dryden. - MANNERIST
One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. - CURSHIP
The state of being a cur; one who is currish. How durst he, I say, oppose thy curship! Hudibras. - MANNERISM
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural - DETESTABLE
Worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices. Thou hast defiled my sanctuary will all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations. Ezek. v. 11. Syn. -- Abominable; - CURSER
One who curses. - DETESTABLENESS
The quality or state of being detestable. - DETESTATE
To detest. Udall. - CURSORES
An order of running birds including the ostrich, emu, and allies; the RatitaƦ. A group of running spiders; the wolf spiders. - DETESTABILITY
Capacity of being odious. Carlyle. - CURSORY
1. Running about; not stationary. 2. Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless. Events far too important to be treated in a cursory manner. Hallam. - MISERABLY
In a miserable; unhappily; calamitously; wretchedly; meanly. They were miserably entertained. Sir P. Sidney. The fifth was miserably stabbed to death. South. - DETEST
calling a deity to witness, to execrate, detest; de + testari to be a 1. To witness against; to denounce; to condemn. The heresy of Nestorius . . . was detested in the Eastern churches. Fuller. God hath detested them with his own mouth. Bale. 2. - CURSITOR
An officer in the Court of Chancery, whose business is to make out original writs. (more info) fr. cursare to run hither and thither, fr. currere to run. See 1. A courier or runner. "Cursitors to and fro." Holland. - MANNERLINESS
The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale. - DECURSIVELY
In a decursive manner. Decursively pinnate , having the leaflets decurrent, or running along the petiole; -- said of a leaf. - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - PRECURSE
A forerunning. Shak. - DISCURSIST
A discourser. L. Addison. - DISCURSION
The act of discoursing or reasoning; range, as from thought to thought. Coleridge. - CIRCUMCURSATION
The act of running about; also, rambling language. Barrow. - EXCURSIVE
Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as, an excursive fancy. The course of excursive . . . understandings. I. Taylor. -- Ex*cur"sive*ly, adv. -- Ex*cur"sive*ness, , n. - SUCCURSAL
Serving to aid or help; serving as a chapel of ease; tributary. Not a city was without its cathedral, surrounded by its succursal churches, its monasteries, and convents. Milman. - INCURSION
1. A running into; hence, an entering into a territory with hostile intention; a temporary invasion; a predatory or harassing inroad; a raid. The Scythian, whose incursions wild Have wasted Sogdiana. Milton. The incursions of the Goths disordered