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encurse

verb

Etymology

From Middle English *encursen (suggested by encursing), equivalent to en- + curse.

  1. inherited from *encursen✻

Definitions

  1. to place or bring a curse upon

    to place or bring a curse upon; curse

    • The mythic story of a race encursed To labor, by a vengeful king, because One rash progenitor forgot his laws, Was held as sacred, till it grew and burst […]
    • How dare ye blaspheme In the sunlight — By heeding a despot's behest That ye widow thy wife and encurse the unborn To fodder a king-vulture's nest!
    • All that lured and enraged him, enticed and revolted him, bewitched and encursed him seemed to have peeled itself from the page of fictitious icons and been made tantalising flesh before him.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for encurse. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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