accursed

Etymology

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

adj

1. (prenominal) Hateful; detestable, loathsome.
   Accursed race of Tiriel. behold your father // Come forth & look on her that bore you. come you accursed sons. c. 1789, William Blake, Tiriel
   Lo! they are charged with studying the accursed cabalistical secrets of the Jews, and the magic of the Paynim Saracens. 1819, Ivanhoe, Walter Scott, Chapter 35
   […]Alaeddin ate and drank and was cheered and after he had rested and had recovered spirits he cried, "Ah, O my mother, I have a sore grievance against thee for leaving me to that accursed wight who strave to compass my destruction and designed to take my life. Know that I beheld Death with mine own eyes at the hand of this damned wretch, whom thou didst certify to be my uncle;[…] 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 532
2. (theology) Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; anathematized.
   […]—if any one, be he who he may, attempt to alter the faith once for all delivered, let him be accursed. 1885, Charles Abel Heurtley, transl., The Commonitory of Vincent of Lérins, Chapter 8
   1912, Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, The Brothers Karamazov, Book III, Chapter 7, For at the very moment I become accursed, at that same highest moment, I become exactly like a heathen […]
   We did not come here to waste words in treating with Sauron, faithless and accursed; still less with one of his slaves. Begone! 1955, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, The Return of the King/Book V, Chapter 10

verb

1. simple past and past participle of accurse