Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To imprecate misery or evil upon; call down curses on; curse.
Wiktionary
- v. To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize.
WordNet 3.0
- v. curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment
Etymologies
- Middle English acursien, acorsien; a- + cursien ("to curse"). See curse. The extra c is a Latinism. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And they accurse all those that abstain them to eat flesh the Saturday.”
“And my justice shall answer for me tomorrow before thee, when the time of the bargain shall come; and all that is not of divers colours, and spotted, and brown, as well among the sheep as among the goats, shall accurse me of theft.”
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision
“The Greek word anathema, Hebrew herem, means to accurse, execrate, to damn.”
“Canterbury should have consented and also have crowned him, wherefore S. Thomas gat a bull for to do accurse them that so did against him, and also on them that occupied the goods longing to him.”
“[1046] Metellus proper cantos senatorial ordinis ex Hibernia accurse jubet; eorum et variorum, quos ironers defeat, console habet”
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
“Do you not accurse your native land by dooming her to the eternal endurance of the degradations and distresses which she feels she has already borne too long?”
National Rectitude the Only True Basis of National Prosperity: An Appeal to the Confederate States
“Thou shalt have it, severed from my head by this accurse steel," answered Wallace, taking off his bonnet, and letting his amber locks fall in tresses on his shoulders.”
“Move but a step forward and you will free us from the burden … If you refuse aid to us, rest assured that at the last great Day of Judgment we will seize the skirts of your garments and accurse you of this injustice before God himself!”
“Now you don't need to worry about getting fingerprint on your iPad or the glare that sometimes accurse when ...”
“On which words they lean heavily, become insolent and bold to say, to do, and to leave undone what they please; put to the ban, accurse, rob, murder, and practise all their wickedness, in whatever way they please and can invent, without any hindrance.”
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LIT - Odyssey - key words and phrases
Key words of the Odyssey by Homer in English including all those famous repeating epitethons like
"bright-eyed Athene"
"wine-dark sea"
"rosy-fingered dawn"
"long suf...Odysseus, sea, Athene, goddess, land, Achaean, wind, wave, Ithaca, lead, Poseidon, mortal and 732 more...
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(more or less) Temporary Urth List
Temporary list is temporary.
Collecting a few words here, which are then to be alloted to other lists.vassal, gnaw, putrescence, liege, pederasty, disseminate, loot, waning, fitful, hiatuse, plow, pious and 292 more...
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