Word Meanings - EXECRATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Cursing; imprecatory; vilifying. Carlyle. -- Ex"e*cra*tive*ly, adv.

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• CURSORIAL
  Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves. Of or pertaining to the Cursores.
• VILIFY
  1. To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace. When themselves they vilified To serve ungoverned appetite. Milton. 2. To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate. I. Taylor. Many passions dispose us to depress and
• CURSEDLY
  In a cursed manner; miserably; in a manner to be detested; enormously.
• CURST
  imp. & p.p. of Curse.
• CURSED
  Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable. Let us fly this cursed place. Milton. This cursed quarrel be no more renewed. Dryden.
• CURSHIP
  The state of being a cur; one who is currish. How durst he, I say, oppose thy curship! Hudibras.
• CURSER
  One who curses.
• CURSORES
  An order of running birds including the ostrich, emu, and allies; the Ratitaæ. A group of running spiders; the wolf spiders.
• CURSORY
  1. Running about; not stationary. 2. Characterized by haste; hastily or superficially performed; slight; superficial; careless. Events far too important to be treated in a cursory manner. Hallam.
• CURSITOR
  An officer in the Court of Chancery, whose business is to make out original writs. (more info) fr. cursare to run hither and thither, fr. currere to run. See 1. A courier or runner. "Cursitors to and fro." Holland.
• IMPRECATORY
  Of the nature of, or containing, imprecation; invokingevil; as, the imprecatory psalms.
• CURSTNESS
  Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; surliness. Shak.
• CURSOR
  Any part of a mathematical instrument that moves or slides backward and forward upon another part.
• CURSORARY
  Cursory; hasty. With a cursorary eye o'erglanced the articles. Shak.
• CURSORILY
  In a running or hasty manner; carelessly.
• CURSITATING
  Moving about slightly. H. Bushnell.
• CURSEDNESS
  1. The state of being under a curse or of being doomed to execration or to evil. 2. Wickedness; sin; cursing. Chaucer. 3. Shrewishness. "My wife's cursedness." Chaucer.
• CURSE
  Dan. korse to make the sign of the cross, Sw. korsa, fr. Dan. & Sw. kors cross, Icel kross, all these Scand. words coming fr. OF. crois, 1. To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate. Thou
• CURSTFULLY
  Peevishly; vexatiously; detestably. "Curstfully mad." Marston.
• CURSIVE
  Running; flowing. Cursive hand,a running handwriting.
• DECURSIVELY
  In a decursive manner. Decursively pinnate , having the leaflets decurrent, or running along the petiole; -- said of a leaf.
• PRECURSE
  A forerunning. Shak.
• DISCURSIST
  A discourser. L. Addison.
• DISCURSION
  The act of discoursing or reasoning; range, as from thought to thought. Coleridge.
• CIRCUMCURSATION
  The act of running about; also, rambling language. Barrow.
• EXCURSIVE
  Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as, an excursive fancy. The course of excursive . . . understandings. I. Taylor. -- Ex*cur"sive*ly, adv. -- Ex*cur"sive*ness, , n.
• SUCCURSAL
  Serving to aid or help; serving as a chapel of ease; tributary. Not a city was without its cathedral, surrounded by its succursal churches, its monasteries, and convents. Milman.
• INCURSION
  1. A running into; hence, an entering into a territory with hostile intention; a temporary invasion; a predatory or harassing inroad; a raid. The Scythian, whose incursions wild Have wasted Sogdiana. Milton. The incursions of the Goths disordered
• EXCURSIONIST
  One who goes on an excursion, or pleasure trip.
• OCCURSE
  See BENTLEY
• EXCURSION
  1. A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally. Far on excursion toward the gates of hell. Milton. They would make excursions and waste the country. Holland. 2. A journey chiefly for recreation; a pleasure trip; a brief tour; as, an
• UNICURSAL
  That can be passed over in a single course; -- said of a curve when the coördinates of the point on the curve can be expressed as rational algebraic functions of a single parameter th. Note: As th varies minus infinity to plus infinity, to each