Imprecate - Law Dictionary Search Results
Imprecation
The act of imprecating or invoking evil upon any one a prayer that a curse or calamity may fall on any one
Imprecate
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Oath
is an appeal by a person to God to witness the truth of what he declares and an imprecation of divine punishment or vengeance on him if what he says is false. Its purpose is to secure
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Curse
To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon to imprecate evil upon to execrate
Execrate
To denounce evil against or to imprecate evil upon to curse to protest against as unholy or detestable hence to detest utterly to abhor to
Corsned
morsel of execration 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
Execration
The act of cursing a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred imprecation utter detestation expressed
Imprecatory
Of the nature of or containing imprecation invoking evil as the imprecatory psalms
Malediction
A proclaiming of evil against some one a cursing imprecation a curse or execration opposed to benediction
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