maledict

VERB
  1. wish harm upon; invoke evil upon
    The bad witch cursed the child
ADJECTIVE
  1. under a curse
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How To Use maledict In A Sentence

  • She would need at least one more before she was able to deal with my malediction.
  • He called Brooklyn, parsed one reply, and concluded with a malediction.
  • The one, of extreme bitterness of words, especially if they be aculeate and proper; for cummunia maledicta are nothing so much; and again, that in anger a man reveal no secrets; for that, makes him not fit for society. The Essays
  • Desponsatio tua, Dei Genitrix Virgo, gaudium annuntiavit universo mundo: ex te enim ortus est Sol iustitiæ, Christus Deus noster: qui solvens maledictionem, dedit benedictionem: et confundens mortem, donavit nobis vitam sempiternam. 23 January -- Festa in Desponsatione Beatæ Mariæ Virginis
  • As Milton argues in A Defence of the People of England, kingship originates from the Fall, and kings issue ‘not from blessings but from curses [and] maledictions cast upon fallen mankind’ .
  • We got into yet another argument over something stupid that turned into exchanging insults and maledictions.
  • I'm not sure whose translation he used, but this one by Dudley Fitts captures the malediction Wright so relished.
  • And my father's maledict ---- But you will chide me for introducing that, now I am enumerating my comforts. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7
  • I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed unhappily; as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, dearth, dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state, menaces and maledictions against king and nobles; needless diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what. King Lear
  • -- but, in his worse, he maledicted everything, and was horribly afraid of hell. Mary Marston
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