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execrable, a.|ˈɛksɪkrəb(ə)l|
Also 5 excecrable, 6 Sc. execrabill, 7 exsecrable.
[ad. L. execrābil-is (exsecrābil-is), (a) execrating, cf. sense 1; (b) accursed, detestable, f. execr-ārī (exsecr-ārī): see execrate. Cf. Fr. exécrable.]
†1. Expressing or involving a curse; hence, of an imprecation: Awful, fearful. Obs.
1382Wyclif 2 Pet. ii. 11 Aungels..beren not aȝens hem the execrable..doom. 1580Baret Alv. C 1802 A Cursing and oth execrable. 1622Fletcher Sea Voy. ii. ii, Did we then..here plant ourselves, With execrable oaths never to look On man? c1630in Risdon Surv. Devon §108 (1810) 100 A fearful and execrable curse on all such as shal deminish..it.
2. Of persons and things: Deserving to be execrated or cursed; abominable, detestable.
1490Caxton Eneydos iv. (1890) 19 Full of so excecrable cruelte. 1513More Rich. III, Wks. 36/2 The execrable desire of souerayntee, prouoked him to theire destruccion. c1590Marlowe Faust Wks. (Rtldg.) 95/2 Thou execrable dog. 1667Milton P.L. xii. 64 O execrable Son so to aspire Above his brethren. 1703Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1721) 68 It was..shut out of the Walls of the City, as an execrable and polluted place. 1736Berkeley Disc. Magistrates Wks. III. 427 That execrable Fraternity of Blasphemers, lately set up within this city of Dublin. 1871Morley Voltaire (1886) 169 He is either a lover of parasites..or else the most execrable cynic. 1878Tennyson Q. Mary ii. ii, A knot of ruffians..With execrating execrable eyes.
†b. That is put under a curse; accursed. Obs.
1557N. T. (Genev.) 1 Cor. xii. 3 No man speaking in the Spirite of God, calleth Iesus execrable. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xvii. (1611) 209 Reserue, as..Saul did, execrable things, to worship God withall.
†c. Calling forth expressions of horror; piteous, horrifying, shocking. Obs.
1490Caxton Eneydos vi. (1890) 22 Y⊇ aduentures of fortune harde & dyuersly excecrable. 1596Drayton Legends iii. 529 Whereby brake out that execrable Rage. 1610G. Fletcher Christ's Vict. (1632) 36 The heav'n put out his guilty eye, That durst behold so execrable sight. 1613R. Hill Commun. Instruct. 20 His [the Minister's] breaking of bread..[doth signifie] the execrable passion of Christ. a1704T. Brown On Dk. Ormond's Recov. Wks. (1730) I. 49 Bellona me invites To seas of blood, and execrable sights. 1805Foster Ess. i. iii. 33 The execrable image of this scene.
3. hyperbolically. Calling forth expressions of extreme disgust; of wretched quality, bad beyond description. [So mod.Fr. exécrable.]
1738Warburton Div. Legat. I. 79 His execrable paradox. 1753Armstrong Taste 15 Blindly we..good, and bad, and execrable swallow. 1789Ld. Auckland Corr. II. 191 Our mule-drivers were wicked enough to carry us to an execrable posada. 1815Moore Lalla R. (1824) 127 The versification..was, to say no worse of it, execrable. 1867M. E. Braddon Run to Earth iii, What execrable weather.
Hence ˈexecrableness.
1730–6Bailey (folio), Execrableness, accursedness, impiousness. 1775in Ash. |