Dictionary Entry

curst

To place a curse upon (a person or object).

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Common Phrases

. curstwife curstsun cursthard curst

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Poetry examples for “curst”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

But most of all, he chiefly reckons by
A private chance,--the death of his curst[494] wife;
This is to him the dearest memory,

Our dreams, or aspirations, or deep thirst.
To you the world's a fig tree which is curst.
You have preached every faith but to betray;

Debarred the surest remedy of grief,
And forced to live, he curst the unasked relief;
Then on his airy pinions upward flies, }

A prettier dinner I never set eyes on!
Pray, a slice of your liver, though, may I be curst,
But I've eat of your tripe till I'm ready to burst."

Decoy the wight that late an' drunk is,
The bleezin, curst, mischievous monkeys
Delude his eyes,

Thae curst horse-leeches o' th' Excise,
Wha mak the whiskey stells their prize!

And wish, too late, for innocence and peace,
Curst, as the tyrant of th' infernal realms,
With gloomy state and agonizing pomp?

Young as thou wert to dangers, raw to war.
O curst essay of arms, disastrous doom,
Prelude of bloody fields and fights to come!

Curst road! whose execrable way
Was darkly shadow'd out in Milton's lay,

But while I thus with this young lion played,
Mine eyes (shall I say curst or blest?) beheld
Stella; now she is nam'd, need more be said?