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currish
/ˈkəːɹɪʃ/
adj 2
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1PREP.
towards
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adj
1
Pertaining to a cur or mongrel.
2
Ignoble, mean-spirited.
more enfierced through his curriſh play, Him ſternely grypt, and haling to and fro, To ouerthrow him ſtrongly did aſſay […].
Gratiano: O, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog! And for thy life let justice be accused. Thou almost makest me waver in my faith, To hold opinion with Pythagoras, That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men: thy currish spirit Govern'd a wolf, who, hang'd for human slaughter, Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet, And, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam, Infused itself in thee; for thy desires Are wolfish, bloody, starved, and ravenous.
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more enfierced through his curriſh play, Him ſternely grypt, and haling to and fro, To ouerthrow him ſtrongly did aſſay […].
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Gratiano: O, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog! And for thy life let justice be accused. Thou almost makest me waver in my faith, To hold opinion with Pythagoras, That souls of animals infuse themselves
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God's vengeance, and all the plagues of Egypt come not upon us, since we are so currish one towards another, so respectless of God and our neighbours, and by our crying sins pull these miseries upon o
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