| 释义 |
accursed, accurst, ppl. a.|əˈkɜːsɪd, əˈkɜːst|
Forms: 2–5 acursed(e, acorsed; 3 akursid, akursede; 4 acursid; 5–6 accursed, accurst.
[f. acurse, later accurse v. + -ed.]
1. Lying under a curse or anathema; anathematized; doomed to perdition or misery.
c1220S. Marherete 10 Þu ouercume..þene acursede gast. c1230Ancren Riwle 234 Efter þreottene ȝer com þe akursede gost þet hefde hire itented. 1388Wyclif Gal. i. 8 Be he acursid [1526 Tindale Holde him as a cursed. 1611Let him be accursed.] 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xxi. 97 And calde hem ‘caytifs a-corsed’: for þis was a vil vilanye. c1450Lonelich Grail xxix. 453 Therfore acursed schalt thou be Thorwh-owt alle the erthe ful sikerle, And the erthe, a-corsed I wel it be do. 1588Shakes. Tit. A. v. iii. 5 Take you in this barbarous Moore, This Rauenous Tiger, this accursed deuill. 1611― Wint. T. iii. iii. 52 Most accurst am I To be by oath enioyn'd to this. 1611Bible Joshua xxii. 20 Did not Achan the sonne of Zerah commit a trespasse in the accursed thing? 1718Pope Iliad vi. 174 A wretch accurst and hated by the gods! 1829Hood Eug. Aram xxviii. [I] sought the black accursed pool With a wild misgiving eye. 1855Tennyson Letters 36 Thro' you, my life will be accurst.
2. Worthy of the curse, or bringing a curse along with it; execrable, damnable; detestable, hateful.
1591Shakes. Two Gent. v. iv. 71 The priuate wound is deepest: oh time, most accurst: 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst. 1713Steele Englishm. No. 48, 308 That accursed Quality..or Disorder of the Mind, called Ambition. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf. T. xii. 119 I never saw the accursed trick performed. 1863Kemble Resid. in Georgia 97 This accursed system of slavery.
3. absol. quasi-n.
1611Bible Joshua vii. 12 Neither will I bee with you any more, except yee destroy the accursed from amongst you. 1814Southey Roderick xii. (1853) IX. 113 Swear that thy soul Will make no covenant with these accursed. |