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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Execrate \Ex"e*crate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Execrated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Execrating}.] [L. execratus, exsecratus, p. p. of execrare, exsecrare, to execrate; ex out + sacer holy, sacred. See {Sacred}.] 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. [bd]They . . . execrate their lct.[b8] --Cowper. | |
