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13 words match “IMPRECATION”

IMPRECATION n.
rse or calamnity may fall on any one; a curse. Men cowered like slaves before such horrid imprecations. Motley.
ANATHEMA n.
An imprecation; a curse; a malediction. Finally she fled to London followed by the anathemas of both [families]. Thackeray.
ANATHEMATIZATION n.
The act of anathematizing, or denouncing as accursed; imprecation. Barrow.
CORSNED n.
ecration; a species of ordeal consisting in the eating of a piece of bread consecrated by imprecation. If the suspected person ate it freely, he was pronounced innocent; but if it stuck in his throat, it was considered as a proof of his guilt. Burril.
CURSE v.
To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with imprecations; to swear. Then began he to curse and to swear. Matt. xxi. 74. His spirits hear me, And yet I need must curse. Shak.
DEPRECATION n.
An imprecation or curse. [Obs.] Gilpin.
EXECRATION n.
The act of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; imprecation; utter detestation expressed. Cease, gentle, queen, these execrations. Shak.
IMPRECATORY a.
Of the nature of, or containing, imprecation; invokingevil; as, the imprecatory psalms.
MALEDICTION n.
A proclaiming of evil against some one; a cursing; imprecation; a curse or execration; -- opposed to benediction. No malediction falls from his tongue. Longfellow.
MAY v.
Desire or wish, as in prayer, imprecation, benediction, and the like. "May you live happily." Dryden. May be, and It may be, are used as equivalent to possibly, perhaps, by chance, peradventure. See 1st Maybe.
ON prep.
To the account of; -- denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon; as, on us be all the blame; a curse on him. His blood be on us and on our children. Matt. xxvii. 25.
SWEAR v.
irreverant manner; to use the name of God or sacred things profanely; to call upon God in imprecation; to curse. [I] swore little; diced not above seven times a week. Shak. To swear by, to place great confidence in a person or thing; to trust implicitly as an authority. "I simply meant to ask if you are one of those wh…
WISH n.
Expression of desire; request; petition; hence, invocation or imprecation. Blistered be thy tongue for such a wish. Shak.