KJV Dictionary Definition: accurse

accurse

ACCURSE, v.t. accurs', Ac for ad and curse. To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon. This verb is rarely used. See Curse.

accursed

ACCURS'ED, pp. or a.

1. Doomed to destruction or misery:

The city shall be accursed. John 6.

2. Separated from the faithful; cast out of the church; excommunicated.

I could wish myself accursed from Christ.

3. Worthy of the curse; detestable; execrable.

Keep from the accursed thing. Josh. 6.

Hence,

4. Wicked; malignant in the extreme.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.

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