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encurse (三人称単数 現在形 encurses, 現在分詞 encursing, 過去形および過去分詞形 encursed)

1. (transitive, archaic) to place or bring a curse upon; curse
   • 1885, Medora Clark, Dignity of Labor:

     The mythic story of a race encursed
     To labor, by a vengeful king, because
     One rash progenitor forgot his laws,
     Was held as sacred, till it grew and burst […]

   • 1914, The Painter and Decorator - Volume 28:

     How dare ye blaspheme In the sunlight —
     By heeding a despot's behest
     That ye widow thy wife and encurse the unborn
     To fodder a king-vulture's nest!

   • 2002, Hal Westhead, After Life:

     All that lured and enraged him, enticed and revolted him, bewitched and encursed him seemed to have peeled itself from the page of fictitious icons and been made tantalising flesh before him.