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accursed

adj
/əˈkɜː.sɪd/UK/əˈkɝ.sɪd/US

Etymology

From Middle English acursed, from acursen (“to curse”), from Old English ācursian, from ā- + cursian, from curs (“curse”). First attested in the 13th century.

  1. derived from ācursian
  2. inherited from acursed

Definitions

  1. Hateful

    Hateful; detestable, loathsome.

    • Accursed race of Tiriel. behold your father // Come forth & look on her that bore you. come you accursed sons.
    • Lo! they are charged with studying the accursed cabalistical secrets of the Jews, and the magic of the Paynim Saracens.

  2. Doomed to destruction or misery

    Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; anathematized.

    • Accurſt be he that firſt inuented war
    • […]—if any one, be he who he may, attempt to alter the faith once for all delivered, let him be accursed.
    • For at the very moment I become accursed, at that same highest moment, I become exactly like a heathen […]

  3. simple past and past participle of accurse

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA