Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To threaten; denounce.
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- verb To
denounce orcurse .
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- verb curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment
Etymologies
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Latin comminat-, past participle stem of comminari, from com- + minari ‘threaten’.
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