damnv. t.[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.)()v. i. To invoke damnation; to curse.(Goldsmith.)