ACCURSED, something that lies under a curse, or sentence of excommunication.
In the Jewish idiom accursed and crucified were synonymous. Among them, every one was accounted accursed who died on a tree. This serves to explain the difficult passage in Rom. ix. 3. where the apostle
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Accursed Paul wished himself accursed after the manner of Christ, i. e. crucified, if happily he might by such a death save his countrymen. The proposition acc here made use of, is used in the same sense, 2 Tim. i. 3. where it obviously signifies after the manner of.