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