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Vinony

accursed

adjective

  1. to imprecate misery or evil upon
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /əˈkɜː.sɪd/ / /əˈkɝ.sɪd/

adj

Etymology: From Middle English acursed, from acursen (“to curse”), from Old English ācursian, from ā- + cursian, from curs (“curse”). First attested in the 13th century.

  1. Hateful; detestable, loathsome.

    “Accursed race of Tiriel. behold your father // Come forth & look on her that bore you. come you accursed sons.”

    “Lo! they are charged with studying the accursed cabalistical secrets of the Jews, and the magic of the Paynim Saracens.”

  2. Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; anathematized.

    “Accurſt be he that firſt inuented war”

    “[…]—if any one, be he who he may, attempt to alter the faith once for all delivered, let him be accursed.”

verb

Etymology: From Middle English acursed, from acursen (“to curse”), from Old English ācursian, from ā- + cursian, from curs (“curse”). First attested in the 13th century.

  1. simple past and past participle of accurse