adv. Also curstly. [f. CURSED + -LY2.]
1. In a cursed manner; in a way deserving a curse; wickedly, abominably.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Monk’s T., 239. Thou that … heriest false goddes cursedly.
c. 1489. Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon, x. 257. Whan bayerd sawe he was so curstly dealed wythall.
1549. Cheke, Hurt Sedit. (1641), 61. They judge cursedly the good to bee bad.
1679. Bedloe, Popish Plot, 1. None more cursedly ingenious in inventing … methods of doing mischief.
2. Used as an intensive with strong expression of reprobation or dislike: In a cursed manner, execrably, detestably, ‘damnably,’ ‘confoundedly.’
1570. Dee, Math. Pref., 20. To be curstly affrayed of his owne shaddow.
1663. T. Porter, Witty Combat, II. iii. Why so thou art insufferably, cursedly drunk.
1751. Smollett, Per. Pic. (1779), II. xlix. 106. Cursedly down in the mouth.
1826. Disraeli, Viv. Grey, V. xv. They voted her ladyship cursedly satirical.
1861. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxf., vi. I can’t see why you should be so cursedly particular.
† 3. Malignantly; with perverse ill-temper; crossly, severely, harshly, virulently.
1430. Lydg., Chron. Troy, III. xxv. Guido … hath delite to speake cursedly Alway of women.
1480. Caxton, Chron. Eng., ccxxvi. 232. His procuratours … cursedly and ful slowly serued hym at his nede.
1590. Marlowe, Edw. II., V. ii. 64. To make him fret the more, Speak curstly to him.
1646. Pagitt, Heresiogr. (ed. 3), 74. Father Browne, who would curstly correct his old wife.
1650. H. More, in Enthus. Triumph. (1656), 106. You … bark and scold … more cursedly and bitterly then any Butter-quean.
