maledict
Americanadjective
verb (used with object)
verb
adjective
Etymology
Origin of maledict
1540–50; < Late Latin maledictus accursed, Latin: past participle of maledīcere to speak ill of, abuse, equivalent to male- male- + dīcere to say
Example Sentences
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This love puts all humanity from me; I can but maledict her, pray her dead, For giving love and getting love of thee - Feeding a heart that else mine own had fed!
From Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas
They all are full of spirits maledict; But that hereafter sight alone suffice thee, Hear how and wherefore they are in constraint.
From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Which magnanimously sounding conclusion, when translated according to the spirit of most who utter it, generally means: “Let him be maledict, excommunicate, and damnated ad inferos—in sæcula sæculorum!—twice over!”
From Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series by Leland, Charles Godfrey
It's all very well for you to maledict the curtain, Carl, but you must work up to it.
From Revenge! by Barr, Robert
In the third circle am I of the rain Eternal, maledict, and cold, and heavy; Its law and quality are never new.
From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
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