Crossword clues for execrated
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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. ``They . . . execrate
their lct.''
--Cowper.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: execrate)
Usage examples of "execrated".
But on these lands, and on the ruins of Pagan superstition, the Christians had frequently erected their own religious edifices: and as it was necessary to remove the church before the temple could be rebuilt, the justice and piety of the emperor were applauded by one party, while the other deplored and execrated his sacrilegious violence.
We bitterly execrated the Indians, the hunters and the books that had betrayed us with the silly device, and wondered dismally what was next to be done.
The reader will please to bear in mind, that, in a slave state, an unsuccessful runaway is not only subjected to cruel torture, and sold away to the far south, but he is frequently execrated by the other slaves.
Adams said later that he and his fellow counsel in consequence “heard our names execrated in the most opprobrious terms whenever we appeared in the streets.