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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EX'ECRATE, v.t. [L. execror, from ex and sacer, the primary sense of which is to separate. See Sacred.]
Literally, to curse; to denounce evil agianst, or to imprecate evil on; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats" [syn: abhor, loathe, abominate, execrate]
2: curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment [syn: accurse, execrate, anathemize, comminate, anathemise, anathematize, anathematise]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-crated; -crating) Etymology: Latin exsecratus, past participle of exsecrari to put under a curse, from ex + sacr-, sacer sacred Date: 1531 1. to declare to be evil or detestable ; denounce 2. to detest utterly • execrative adjective • execrator noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. 1 tr. express or feel abhorrence for. 2 tr. curse (a person or thing). 3 intr. utter curses. Derivatives: execration n. execrative adj. execratory adj. Etymology: L exsecrare (as EX-(1), sacrare devote f. sacer sacred, accursed)

Webster's 1913 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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Curse, imprecate ill upon, call down curses on. 2. Abominate, detest, hate, abhor.

Moby Thesaurus

abhor, abominate, abuse, accurse, anathematize, ban, bark at, berate, betongue, blacken, blaspheme, blast, censure, condemn, confound, curse, curse and swear, cuss, damn, darn, denounce, detest, dysphemize, excommunicate, fulminate against, hate, hex, hold in abomination, imprecate, jaw, load with reproaches, loathe, objurgate, rag, rail at, rate, rave against, reprehend, reprobate, reprove, revile, scatologize, shudder at, swear, talk dirty, throw a whammy, thunder against, tongue-lash, utterly detest, vilify, vituperate, yell at, yelp at