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Definition of Curst
1. Adjective. Deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier. "I'll be cursed if I can see your reasoning"
Similar to: Accursed, Accurst, Maledict, Blame, Blamed, Blasted, Blessed, Damn, Damned, Darned, Deuced, Goddam, Goddamn, Goddamned, Infernal, Cursed With, Stuck With, Damn, Goddamn, Damnable, Execrable
Antonyms: Blessed
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
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Curst
1. curse [v] - See also: curse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Curst
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 ..."