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curse an ecclesiastical censure of excommunication Curse Ancient Mariner cursed by the crew because his slaying of the albatross is causing their deaths. [Br. Poetry: Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner] king of the dwarfs; his malediction spurs many events in the Nibelungenlied. [Norse Myth.: Bulfinch] cursed by Thyestes, whose children Atreus had served to him in a stew. [Gk. Legend: Benét, 61] cursed by God for murdering Abel. [O. T.: Genesis 4:11] dying at the hand of her son Alcmaeon, she curses any land that would shelter him. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 20] the Eumenides haunt a decaying English family because the head of the house had plotted to kill his pregnant wife. [Br. Drama: Magill II, 321] sea captain condemned to sail unceasingly because he had invoked the Devil’s aid in a storm. [Maritime legend: Brewer Dictionary] brought disaster to all who possessed it. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 442] about to be executed as a wizard, laid a bloody doom on the Pyncheons. [Am. Lit.: Hawthorne The House of the Seven Gables] doomed by a curse to roam the earth for 150 years after his death. [Br. Lit.: Melmoth the Wanderer] wrested by an English officer from Buddhist priests, who place a curse on all who possess it. [Br. Lit.: Collins The Moonstone in Benét, 683] he and all future lords of Ruddigore are doomed by a witch to commit a crime a day forever. [Br. Opera: Gilbert and Sullivan Ruddigore]
cursed the house of Atreus, who had served him his sons in a stew. [Gk. Myth. & Drama: “Atreus,” Benét, 61] its opening supposed to have brought a curse upon its excavators, some of whom died soon after. [Pop. Cult.: Misc.] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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She was caught
between her "anti-Party's" warring factions--Realos, who
were prepared to make pragmatic concessions in order to get their hands
on more governmental power (and funds) and the "Fundis"
(fundamentalists), angrily eager to expel and anathemize anybody who
departed an iota from fundamental doctrine. |
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