maledict

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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

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

In the third circle am I of the rain   Eternal, maledict, and cold, and heavy;   Its law and quality are never new.

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

It's all very well for you to maledict the curtain, Carl, but you must work up to it.

From Revenge! by Barr, Robert

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