Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority to unending punishment.
An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; something denounced as accursed.
Something which is vehemently disliked by somebody.
An assessed tax, duty, or levy.
Usually preceded by good or (more commonly) bad: luck or success.
The area along either side of a railroad track which is kept at a lower level than the sleeper bottom, in order to provide drainage.
To levy a cess.