Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers
Section III. Sympathetic Affections
2. Diffusive Sympathetic Affections

908. Malediction.

   NOUN:MALEDICTION, malison, curse, imprecation, denunciation, execration; anathema, – maranatha; maranatha [a misinterpretation]; ban, proscription, excommunication, commination, thunders of the Vatican, fulmination; aspersion, disparagement, vilification, vituperation.
  ABUSE; foul -, bad -, strong -, unparliamentary- language; billingsgate, sauce [colloq.]; blackguardism (discourtesy) [See Discourtesy]; evil speaking; cursing &c. v.; profane swearing, oath; foul invective, ribaldry, rude reproach, scurrility, threat [See Threat]; more bark than bite; invective (disapprobation) [See Disapprobation].
   VERB:CURSE, accurse, imprecate, damn; curse with bell, book, and candle; invoke -, call down- curses on the head of; call down curses upon one’s devoted head; devote to destruction.
  execrate, beshrew [archaic], scold; anathematize (censure) [See Disapprobation]; hold up to execration, denounce, proscribe, excommunicate, fulminate, thunder against; curse up hill and down dale; threaten [See Threat].
  SWEAR, curse and swear; swear like a trooper; fall a-cursing, rap out an oath, swear at, damn.
   ADJECTIVE:MALEDICTORY, imprecatory; cursing, cursed &c. v.
   INTERJECTION:woe to! beshrew! [archaic], ruat cælum! [L.], woe betide! ill betide! confusion seize! damn! confound! blast! curse! devil take! hang! out with! a plague upon! out upon! aroynt! honi soit! [F.], parbleu! [F.].    QUOTATIONS:

1. Delenda est Carthago.
2. Ruin seize thee, ruthless king.—Gray