Hypertext Webster Gateway: "damned"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Damn \Damn\ (d[a^]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Damned} (d[a^]md or
d[a^]m"n[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Damning} (d[a^]m"[i^]ng or
d[a^]m"n[i^]ng).] [OE. damnen dampnen (with excrescent p),
OF. damner, dampner, F. damner, fr. L. damnare, damnatum, to
condemn, fr. damnum damage, a fine, penalty. Cf. {Condemn},
{Damage}.]
1. To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to
punishment; to sentence; to censure.
He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.
--Shak.
2. (Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to
consign to perdition; to curse.
3. To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as
by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc.
You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the
works of modern poets] . . . without hearing.
--Pope.
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And
without sneering teach the rest to sneer. --Pope.
Note: Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively,
and intensively.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Damned \Damned\, a.
1. Sentenced to punishment in a future state; condemned;
consigned to perdition.
2. Hateful; detestable; abominable.
But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who doats,
yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
damned
adj 1: expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted
idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter";
"not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or
darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's
a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced
idiot"; "tired or his everlasting whimpering"; "an
infernal nuisance" [syn: {blasted}, {blame}, {blamed},
{blessed}, {damn}, {darned}, {deuced}, {everlasting},
{goddam}, {goddamn}, {goddamned}, {infernal}]
2: (Christianity) in danger of the eternal punishment of hell;
"poor damned souls" [syn: {cursed}, {doomed}, {unredeemed},
{unsaved}]
n : people who are condemned to eternal punishment; "he felt he
had visited the realm of the damned"
adv : in a damnable manner; "kindly Arthur--so damnably , politely
, endlessly persistent!" [syn: {damnably}, {cursedly}]
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