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On :: On (prep.) To the account of; -- denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon; as, on us be all the blame; a curse on him..

Deprecation :: Deprecation (n.) The act of deprecating; a praying against evil; prayer that an evil may be removed or prevented; strong expression of disapprobation.

Malediction :: Malediction (n.) A proclaiming of evil against some one; a cursing; imprecation; a curse or execration; -- opposed to benediction.

Imprecation :: Imprecation (n.) The act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon any one; a prayer that a curse or calamity may fall on any one; a curse..

Corsned :: Corsned (n.) 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..

Comprecation :: Comprecation (n.) A praying together.

Apprecation :: Apprecation (n.) Earnest prayer; devout wish.

Curse :: Curse (v. i.) To utter imprecations or curses; to affirm or deny with imprecations; to swear.

Deprecation :: Deprecation (n.) Entreaty for pardon; petitioning.

Imprecatory :: Imprecatory (a.) Of the nature of, or containing, imprecation; invoking evil; as, the imprecatory psalms..

Wish :: Wish (n.) Expression of desire; request; petition; hence, invocation or imprecation..

Execration :: Execration (n.) The act of cursing; a curse dictated by violent feelings of hatred; imprecation; utter detestation expressed.

Swear :: Swear (v. i.) To make an appeal to God in an irreverant manner; to use the name of God or sacred things profanely; to call upon God in imprecation; to curse.

Deprecation :: Deprecation (n.) An imprecation or curse.

Anathematization :: Anathematization (n.) The act of anathematizing, or denouncing as accursed; imprecation..

Anathema :: Anathema (n.) An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.

Precation :: Precation (n.) The act of praying; supplication; entreaty.

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