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accurse, v. Obs. or arch.|əˈkɜːs|
Forms: 2–5 acurse, 2–4 acorse, acorsy, 5– accurse. pa. pple. accursed, also 6–8 accurst.
[f. a- prefix + OE. cursian to curse. As a-curse is not found before the 12th c., the prefix does not here represent an older ar- or an-, but is imitated from the a- into which both of these had then sunk, and was apparently intensive, as in wake, a-wake, rise, a-rise. In 5, when the scribes latinized the Fr. prefix a- before c to ac-, they servilely did the same with a-curse, whence the false spelling ac-curse.]
To pronounce or imprecate a curse upon, to anathematize; to devote to perdition, evil, or misery.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 31 Þene preost he mot isechen þe hine acursede · þet he hine iblecie onȝein þet he hine acursede. a1250Owl & Night. 1701 (Cott. MS.) Ȝe schule on oþer wise singe And acursi alle fiȝtinge [Arch. MS. cursi]. 1297R. Glouc. 474 He acorsede all thulke men, that he hadde uorth ibrouȝt. Ibid. 296 Hii myȝte acorsy þe fole quene, þat Seynt Edward slou. a1320Guy Warw. (Turnb.) 6 He acursed the time that hir say [= saw]. c1360Wyclif De Dot. Eccl. 55 Popis..confermen and acursen men whanne hem likiþ and myslikiþ men. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. Prol. 99 Lest crist in cons[is]torie · acorse ful manye. 1494Fabyan vii. 361 She had also purchased a curse of the pope, to a curse all y⊇ said barons. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 1557, 710/1 Of Noe hys owne sonnes one ye wot wel was so bad, that hys owne father accursed him. 1649Jer. Taylor Great Exemp. iii. xiv. 50 God can accurse the soul as well as punish the body. 1667Milton P.L. x. 175 Because thou hast done this, thou art accursed Above all cattle. 1868Milman St. Paul's iii. 70 He had been Dean of St. Paul's, and in that office accursed at Paul's Cross all who had searched. |