execrated

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execrated - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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