curst
Americanverb
adjective
verb
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of curst
First recorded in 1545–55, for the adjective
Example Sentences
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O luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree, How ill exchanged are things like these for thee!
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2020
The stanza relating to Lilly ran as follows: ‘From th’ oracles of the Sibyls so silly, The curst predictions of William Lilly, And Dr. Sibbald’s Shoe-Lane Philly, Good Lord, deliver me.’
From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams
Good friend, for Jesus’ sake forbear, To dig the dust enclosed here; Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.
From William Shakespere, of Stratford-on-Avon His Epitaph Unearthed, and the Author of the Plays run to Ground by Scott Surtees
I am only a cowed curst woman who walks with death; I will crouch here.
From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Gordon Bottomley
To you the world's a fig tree which is curst.
From Songs and Satires by Edgar Lee Masters
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