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Home Dictionary Name: cursedlyCursing
Cursing. Profane searing or cursing is punishable by fine. See SWEARING....
Cursed
Deserving a curse execrable hateful detestable abominable...
Cursedly
In a cursed manner miserably in a manner to be detested enormously...
Execration
The act of cursing a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred imprecation utter detestation expressed...
Imprecation
The act of imprecating or invoking evil upon any one a prayer that a curse or calamity may fall on any one a curse...
Malediction
A proclaiming of evil against some one a cursing imprecation a curse or execration opposed to benediction...
Corsned bread
Corsned bread [fr. Corsian, to curse, and snaed, a morsel, A.S.; panis conjuratus, or offa execrata, Lat., the morsel of execration, or ordeal bread]. It was a kind of superstitious trial or ordeal used among the Saxons, to purge themselves of any accusation, by taking a piece of barley bread and eating it with solemn oaths, curses, and excrations, that it might prove poison, or their last morsel, if what they asserted , or denied, were not true. 4 Bl. Com. 345, 414; and see Norton's City of London, 34d Edn. 36, 265....
Malediction
Malediction, A curse connected with the donation of property to a Church and applicable against any one attempting to violate the Church's rights, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 968.A curse such as was anciently annexed to donations of lands made to churches or religious houses, against those who should violate their rights....
Beshrew
To curse to execrate...
Curse
To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon to imprecate evil upon to execrate...
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