From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
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He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.
--Shak.
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2. (Theol.) To doom to punishment in the future world; to
consign to perdition; to curse.
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3. To condemn as bad or displeasing, by open expression, as
by denuciation, hissing, hooting, etc.
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You are not so arrant a critic as to damn them [the
works of modern poets] . . . without hearing.
--Pope.
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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer.
--Pope.
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Note: Damn is sometimes used interjectionally, imperatively,
and intensively.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Damn \Damn\, v. i.
To invoke damnation; to curse. "While I inwardly damn."
--Goldsmith.
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