execrate

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 361 words | Copyright

execrate express or feel abhorrence of. XVI. f. pp. stem of L. ex(s)ecrārĩ curse, f. EX-1 + sacrāre devote religiously, f. sacer, sacr- religiously set apart; see SACRED, -ATE3.
So execration XIV. — (O)F. or L. execrable †involving a curse XIV; abominable XV. — (O)F. exécrable — L. (in act. and pass. senses).

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