Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Accursed.
- transitive verb To pronounce a curse against.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To address with maledictions; curse.
- Execrated; accursed; damned.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Accursed; abominable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
accursed ,cursed - verb To
curse - verb To
berate
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
- adjective under a curse
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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All the while the maledict banner of the Romanoffs writhes above them.
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It was in that desperate and curious limbo known as the "exit concourse," where baffled creatures wait to meet others arriving on trains and maledict the architect who so planned matters that the passengers arrive on two sides at once, so that one stands grievously in the middle slewing his eyes to one side and another in a kind of vertigo, attempting to con both exits.
Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned Christopher Morley 1923
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And my father's maledict ---- But you will chide me for introducing that, now I am enumerating my comforts.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 Samuel Richardson 1725
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Unsympathetically it is the job of computer alarm clock to crystallized sinusoidally the feeble maledict grindelia halfway as the opsb and the generosity of new cetus in this lattice.
Rational Review 2009
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And my father’s maledict — — But you will chide me for introducing that, now I am enumerating my comforts.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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a mother, and father, and wife, and orphan, have had reason to maledict the _bloody Battles of the Factions_.
The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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"It's all very well for you to maledict the curtain, Carl, but you must work up to it.
Revenge! Robert Barr 1881
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