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 Paul wishes himself accursed after the manner of Christ, i.e., crucified, if happily he might by such a death save his countrymen. The preposition ἐν here made use of, is used in the same sense, 2 Tim. i, 3, where it obviously signifies after the manner of.

ACCUSIUS, a law-professor in the 13th century, born in Florence. His authority was for some time so great, that he was called the Idol of the Lawyers.—Other three lawyers of note had the same name.

ACCUSIUS (Mariangelus), a famous critic of the 16th century, born at Aquilo in the kingdom of Naples. His Diatresbes, printed at Rome in folio, in 1524, on Ovid and Solinus, are a proof of his abilities in that kind of erudition. In his edition of Amianus Marcellinus there are five books more than in any of the preceding ones; and he affirms he had corrected 5000 errors in that historian. His predominant passion was the searching for and collecting of old manuscripts: yet he made Latin and Italian verses; was complete master of the French, German, and Spanish tongues; and understood optics and music. He purged himself by oath, being charged for being a plagiarist with regard to his Antonius; it being reported, that he had appropriated to himself the labours of Fabrizio Varana, bishop of Camerino.