execratory

American  

[ek-si-kruh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee, -kray-tuh-ree] / ˈɛk sɪ krəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i, -ˌkreɪ tə ri /

adjective

1. pertaining to execration.

2. having the nature of or containing an execration.

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Etymology

Origin of execratory

First recorded in 1605–15; execrate + -ory ¹

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Example Sentences

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execratory

The oaths which were and are most usual in these Indians are execratory.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Emma Helen Blair

There was not less inconvenience in the execratory oath of the famous masonic secret, for which no adequate object has been discovered, unless it was one which no longer exists.

From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Juan Antonio Llorente

From these facts it appears, that the execratory oath is without a motive or object in modern masonic lodges.

From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Juan Antonio Llorente

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