"encurse" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English *encursen (suggested by encursing), equivalent to en- + curse.",
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      "form": "encursed",
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          "ref": "1885, Medora Clark, Dignity of Labor",
          "text": "The mythic story of a race encursed\nTo labor, by a vengeful king, because\nOne rash progenitor forgot his laws,\nWas held as sacred, till it grew and burst […]",
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        {
          "ref": "1914, The Painter and Decorator - Volume 28",
          "text": "How dare ye blaspheme In the sunlight —\nBy heeding a despot's behest\nThat ye widow thy wife and encurse the unborn\nTo fodder a king-vulture's nest!",
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          "ref": "2002, Hal Westhead, After Life",
          "text": "All that lured and enraged him, enticed and revolted him, bewitched and encursed him seemed to have peeled itself from the page of fictitious icons and been made tantalising flesh before him.",
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        "to place or bring a curse upon; curse"
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        "(transitive, archaic) to place or bring a curse upon; curse"
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  "word": "encurse"
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      "form": "encursed",
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        "to place or bring a curse upon; curse"
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