Word Meanings - CURST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

imp. & p.p. of Curse.

CURSE
Dan. korse to make the sign of the cross, Sw. korsa, fr. Dan. & Sw. kors cross, Icel kross, all these Scand. words coming fr. OF. crois, 1. To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate. Thou
CURSEDLY
In a cursed manner; miserably; in a manner to be detested; enormously.
CURSED
Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable. Let us fly this cursed place. Milton. This cursed quarrel be no more renewed. Dryden.
CURSER
One who curses.
CURSEDNESS
1. The state of being under a curse or of being doomed to execration or to evil. 2. Wickedness; sin; cursing. Chaucer. 3. Shrewishness. "My wife's cursedness." Chaucer.
PRECURSE
A forerunning. Shak.
OCCURSE
See BENTLEY
EXCURSE
To journey or pass thought.
ACCURSED; ACCURST
Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; hence, bad enough to be under the curse; execrable; detestable; exceedingly hateful; -- as, an accursed deed. Shak. -- Ac*curs"ed*ly, adv. -- Ac*curs"ed*ness, n.
UNCURSE
To free from a curse or an execration. Shak.
ACCURSE
To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize. And the city shall be accursed. Josh. vi. 17. Thro' you, my life will be accurst. Tennyson.