maledict

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Which magnanimously sounding conclusion, when translated according to the spirit of most who utter it, generally means: “Let him be maledict, excommunicate, and damnated ad inferos—in sæcula sæculorum!—twice over!”

From Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series by Leland, Charles Godfrey

All the while the maledict banner of the Romanoffs writhes above them.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896 by Various

They all are full of spirits maledict;   But that hereafter sight alone suffice thee,   Hear how and wherefore they are in constraint.

From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

This love puts all humanity from me; I can but maledict her, pray her dead, For giving love and getting love of thee - Feeding a heart that else mine own had fed!

From Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas

And I to him: "With weeping and with wailing,   Thou spirit maledict, do thou remain;   For thee I know, though thou art all defiled."

From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth