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Imprecation

The act of imprecating or invoking evil upon any one a prayer that a curse or calamity may fall on any one

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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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