| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers | | Section III. Sympathetic Affections | | 2. Diffusive Sympathetic Affections |
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| 908. Malediction. |
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| 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].
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| 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.
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| ADJECTIVE: | MALEDICTORY, imprecatory; cursing, cursed &c. v.
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| 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.]. |
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| QUOTATIONS: | - Delenda est Carthago.
- Ruin seize thee, ruthless king.—Gray
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