imprecation+of+evil
21BLESSING AND CURSING — In the Bible these two antonyms have three meanings: (1) the invocation of good or evil; (2) good fortune or misfortune; and (3) the person or thing upon whom or which the fortune or misfortune falls. Thus the first meaning is best represented in …
22curse — n Curse, imprecation, malediction, anathema are comparable when they denote a denunciation that conveys a wish or threat of evil. Curse (opposed to blessing)usually implies a call upon God or a supernatural power to visit punishment or disaster… …
23Cursing — • In its popular acceptation cursing is often confounded, especially in the phrase cursing and swearing , with the use of profane and insulting language; in canon law it sometimes signifies the ban of excommunication pronounced by the Church… …
24curse — 1. noun 1) she put a curse on him Syn: malediction, hex, jinx; formal imprecation; literary anathema; (a curse) the evil eye 2) the curse of racism Syn: evil, blight, scourge, plague, cancer …
25malediction — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. imprecation, curse, anathema, execration. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. imprecation, denunciation, damnation; see curse 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. curse, damning, imprecation, execration,… …
26curse — I. noun Etymology: Middle English curs, from Old English Date: before 12th century 1. a prayer or invocation for harm or injury to come upon one ; imprecation 2. something that is cursed or accursed 3. evil or misfortune that comes as if in… …
27Curse — For other uses, see Curse (disambiguation). A woman makes a cursing ritual ceremony, by Hokusai A curse (also called execration) is any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune will befall or attach to some other entity one or… …
28LAW AND MORALITY — In the Bible In the Pentateuch, legal and moral norms are not distinguished by any definitional criteria. The manner of presentation of both is via revelation – moral norms are not presented as wisdom but rather as prophetic revelation. Thus the… …
29anathema — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. denunciation; curse, execration, imprecation. See detraction. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. 1. the damned the accursed, the condemned, pariah, outcast, heretic, villain. 2. curse ban,… …
30curse — [kʉrs] n. [ME & Late OE n. curs, v. cursian: prob. < L cursus (see COURSE), used of the course of daily liturgical prayers and of the set of imprecations in the formal recital of offenses entailing excommunication; hence, consignment to an… …
