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The act of imprecating or invoking evil upon any one a prayer that a curse or calamity may fall on any one a curse...
Oath
Oath [fr. ath, Sax.], an appeal to God to witness the truth of a statement. It is called a corporal oath, where a witness, when he swears, places his right hand on the Holy Evangelists.The Christian religion, though it prohibits swearing, excepts oaths required by legal authority (Art. Ch. of Engl. xxxix.). All who believe in a God, the avenger of falsehood, have always been admitted to give evidence, but the old rule was, that all witnesses must take an oath of some kind. Very gradually, however, the legislature has relaxed this rule, and the privilege of affirming (see AFFIRMATION) instead of taking an oath has now been universally granted by the (English) Oaths Act, 1888, by which--Every person upon objection to being sworn, and stating, as the ground of such objection, either that he has no religious belief, or that the taking of an oath is contrary to his religious belief, shall be permitted to make his solemn affirmation instead of taking an oath in all places and for all purpose...
Corsned
The 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 it was considered as a proof of his guilt...
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 abominate...
Execration
The act of cursing a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred imprecation utter detestation expressed...
Imprecate
To call down by prayer as something hurtful or calamitous...
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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