execratory

[ek-si-kruh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee, -krey-tuh-ree]

adjective

1. pertaining to execration.

2. having the nature of or containing an execration.

Word History and Origins

Origin of execratory¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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They soon, however, forgot the most criminal part of the execratory oath: since the deaths of Clement V. and Philip the Fair, the persecutors of the knights, deprived them of the power of revenging the executions of James de Molay and his companions, and had no other object but the re-establishment of the order; this intention shared the fate of the first, after the deaths of the authors of it, and their first disciples.

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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.

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There is nothing new under the sun; the word "anathema" originally meant a votive offering: one of those execratory tablets, deposited in the sacred places, by means of which the ancient Greeks committed their enemies to the wrath of the Infernal Goddesses.

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

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