Definition of Scoursed

1. scourse [v] - See also: scourse

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scoursed

scourgest
scourgeth
scourging
scourie
scouries
scouring
scouring pad
scouring pads
scouring powder
scouring powders
scouring rush
scouring rushes
scourings
scours
scourse
scoursed (current term)
scourses
scoursing
scouse
scouser
scousers
scouses
scout car
scout film
scout group
scout out
scout radiograph
scout troop
scoutcraft

Literary usage of Scoursed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Aunt Phillis's Cabin: Or, Southern Life as it is by Mary Henderson Eastman (1852)
"I know I could a 'scoursed them niggers powerful. Its a hard thing to wear a ruffled shirt. Dey sticks out and pushes up to people's chins—I mean people dat ..."

2. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... which wul sei ve united, doth grow and prosper, and the Sea doth not beate that the Trees arc straight, is a token that the Port, besides ¡scoursed of, ..."

3. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1817)
"... and to be scoursed by the hand of the ' common hangman, the first Wednesday of ' July yearly, being a lawful day, ..."

4. The British Prose Writers by William Temple (1821)
"Upon the state of the nation in 1775, he thus scoursed : " Sir, the great misfortune now is, that overnment has too little power. All that it has to stow, ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Scoursed on Dictionary.com!Search for Scoursed on Thesaurus.com!Search for Scoursed on Google!Search for Scoursed on Wikipedia!

Search