Definition of "accurse" [ac•curse]

• To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize. (verb)

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• "And they accurse all those that abstain them to eat flesh the Saturday."
• "And my justice shall answer for me tomorrow before thee, when the time of the bargain shall come; and all that is not of divers colours, and spotted, and brown, as well among the sheep as among the goats, shall accurse me of theft."
• "The Greek word anathema, Hebrew herem, means to accurse, execrate, to damn."