accurse

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To curse, accurse, imprecate, scold, rail, execrate To denounce, proscribe, excommunicate, fulminate Adj_.

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  1. To imprecate misery or evil upon; call down curses on; curse. [Now hardly used except in the past participle as an adjective: see below.] Hildebrand accursed and cast down from his throne Henry IV. Raleigh, Essays.

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  • To curse, accurse, imprecate, scold, rail, execrate To denounce, proscribe, excommunicate, fulminate Adj_. —  Public Speaking
  • 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 Now Christ did not mean that we should listen to them in everything they might say and do, but only then when they present to us His Word, the Gospel, not their word, His work, and not their work. —  A Treatise on Good Works
  • 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. —  A Treatise on Good Works
  • "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. —  The Scottish Chiefs
  • 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, Complete The Challoner Revision
 

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  1. A wrong spelling, in imitation of Latin words with prefix ac-, of acurse, from Middle English acursien, acorsien, from a- (from Anglo-Saxon ā-) + cursien, corsien, from Anglo-Saxon cursian, curse: see curse, v.
 

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