Definition of Curst

1. Adjective. Deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier. "I'll be cursed if I can see your reasoning"


Definition of Curst

1. a. Froward; malignant; mischievous; malicious; snarling.

Definition of Curst

1. Adjective. (archaic spelling of cursed) ¹

2. Verb. (archaic spelling of cursed); (past of curse) ¹

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Definition of Curst

1. curse [v] - See also: curse

Lexicographical Neighbors of Curst

cursor key
cursor keys
cursorary
cursored
cursores
cursorial
cursorily
cursoriness
cursorinesses
cursoring
cursorless
cursors
cursory
cursour
cursours
curst (current term)
curstfully
cursus
curt
curtail
curtailed
curtailer
curtailers
curtailing
curtailment
curtailments
curtails
curtain
curtain-call
curtain-raise

Literary usage of Curst

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary to the Works of William Shakespeare by Alexander Dyce (1902)
"36; I was never curst, MND iii. 2. 300; she is intolerable curst, Shr. i. ... 67; Finding their enemy to be so curst, Ven. 887. curst, froward, perverse: a ..."

2. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"But your curst wit, when it comes near it, Blush at the curious stranger peeping ... Unaided through thy curs'd restriction ; Ib, that curst carmagnole auld ..."

3. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"... they are never curst but when they are hungry. Wtnt. T., iii, 3. Ahis ! what kind of grief can thy years know ? Had'st thon a cant master when thou ..."

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