accursed
[uh-kur-sid, uh-kurst]
- under a curse; doomed; ill-fated.
- damnable; detestable.
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Also ac·curst [uh-kurst] /əˈkɜrst/.
Origin of accursed
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None but the most accurst of villains could abuse such goodness.
The Sylph, Volume I and IIGeorgiana Cavendish
In second husband, let me be accurst; None wed the second, but who killed the first.
A Fascinating TraitorRichard Henry Savage
Each in its place is seen to be good and worthy, but when each devours the other both are accurst.
The Browning CyclopdiaEdward Berdoe
It was said that he conjured gold and jewels out of the unholy flames he kindled, and was accurst of God and the church.
The Deserter, and Other StoriesHarold Frederic
Benvenuto Cellini has told us how his father, in like fashion, was eager that he should practise the "accurst art" of music.
accursed
accurst (əˈkɜːst)
- under or subject to a curse; doomed
- (prenominal) hateful; detestable; execrable
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Word Origin
Old English ācursod, past participle of ācursian to put under a curse
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Word Origin and History for accurst
accursed
adj.
also accurst, early 13c., acursede "lying under a curse," past participle adjective from obsolete verb acursen "pronounce a curse upon, excommunicate" (late 12c.), from a- intensive prefix + cursein (see curse (v.)). The extra -c- is 15c., mistaken Latinism. Weakened sense of "worthy of a curse" is from 1590s. Related: Accursedly; accursedness.
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