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What (who) is Curse - definition

SUPERNATURAL HINDRANCE, OR INCANTATION INTENDED TO BESTOW SUCH A HINDRANCE
Curses; Execration; Curse spell; Execrates; Execrate; Execrated; Imprecatory prayer; Cursee; Cusing; Algrim the Strong; Imprecation; Commination; Malison; Imprecate; Family curse; A pox on both your houses
  • Ancient Greek curse written on a lead sheet, 4th century BC, [[Kerameikos]] Archaeological Museum, [[Athens]].
  • Ancient Greek cursed object against enemies in a trial, written on a lead figurine put in a lead box, 420-410 BC, [[Kerameikos]] Archaeological Museum, [[Athens]].
  • A woman performs a cursing ritual ([[Hokusai]])
  • Dynasty XXII]]. The inscription celebrates a donation of land to an Egyptian temple, and places a curse on anyone who would misuse or appropriate the land.
  • ''Shimei curses David'', 1860 woodcut by [[Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld]]
  • Gordon Young]] with an extract from the bishop's curse

curse         
I
n.
1) to pronounce, put a curse on, upon smb.
2) to utter a curse
3) to lift a curse
4) under a curse
II
v. (D; tr.) to curse for (she cursed him for his clumsiness)
curse         
(curses, cursing, cursed)
1.
If you curse, you use rude or offensive language, usually because you are angry about something. (WRITTEN)
I cursed and hobbled to my feet.
= swear
VERB: V
Curse is also a noun.
He shot her an angry look and a curse.
N-COUNT
2.
If you curse someone, you say insulting things to them because you are angry with them.
Grandma protested, but he cursed her and rudely pushed her aside...
He cursed himself for having been so careless.
VERB: V n, V pron-refl
3.
If you curse something, you complain angrily about it, especially using rude language.
So we set off again, cursing the delay, towards the west...
VERB: V n
4.
If you say that there is a curse on someone, you mean that there seems to be a supernatural power causing unpleasant things to happen to them.
Maybe there is a curse on my family...
N-COUNT: oft N on/upon n
5.
You can refer to something that causes a great deal of trouble or harm as a curse.
Apathy is the long-standing curse of British local democracy...
= plague
N-COUNT: usu sing, oft N of n
Curse         
·vt An invocation of, or prayer for, harm or injury; malediction.
II. Curse ·vt The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
III. Curse ·vi To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with imprecations; to Swear.
IV. Curse ·vt Evil pronounced or invoked upon another, solemnly, or in passion; subjection to, or sentence of, divine condemnation.
V. Curse ·vt To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to Execrate.
VI. Curse ·vt To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.

Wikipedia

Curse

A curse (also called an imprecation, malediction, execration, malison, anathema, or commination) is any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune will befall or attach to one or more persons, a place, or an object. In particular, "curse" may refer to such a wish or pronouncement made effective by a supernatural or spiritual power, such as a god or gods, a spirit, or a natural force, or else as a kind of spell by magic (usually black magic) or witchcraft; in the latter sense, a curse can also be called a hex or a jinx. In many belief systems, the curse itself (or accompanying ritual) is considered to have some causative force in the result. To reverse or eliminate a curse is sometimes called "removal" or "breaking", as the spell has to be dispelled, and often requires elaborate rituals or prayers.

Examples of use of Curse
1. "In every curse there is a blessing, and in every blessing a curse," a fellow speller told Matthew.
2. The latest summer curse is the return of myxomatosis.
3. Such incidents are considered the curse of urban warfare.
4. And yet, however seductive, these petrodollars are a curse.
5. Satirists saw the incident as a curse on his premiership.