I.v. dep. a. and n. sacer, to curse, execrate.
I. Prop. (class.; “syn.: abominor, detestor, abhorreo, horreo, aversor, devoveo): te oderunt, tibi pestem exoptant, te exsecrantur,” Cic. Pis. 40, 96; “(with male precari),” id. ib. 14, 33: “aliquem,” id. Leg. 1, 12, 33; id. Off. 3, 3, 11: “consilia Catilinae,” Sall. C. 48, 1: “severitatem nimiam et assidua belli pericula,” Just. 13, 1: “superbiam regis,” id. 39, 1: “litem,” Dig. 4, 7, 4 et saep.: “in se ac suum ipsius caput,” Liv. 30, 20, 7: “exsecratus deinde in caput regnumque Prusiae,” id. 39, 51 fin.: “exsecratur Thyestes, ut naufragio pereat Atreus,” Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 107: “verba exsecrantia,” Ov. M. 5, 105 et saep.—*
II. Transf., to take a solemn oath with imprecations (against its infringement): “eamus omnis execrata civitas (= his votis cum exsecratione conceptis),” Hor. Epod. 16, 36; cf. v. 18.!*? *
1. Also, act.: exsecro , āre: exsecrabant se ac suos, Afran. ap. Non. 473, 24; cf. Prisc. p. 797 P.—
2. exsē^crātus , a, um, in pass. signif. and as P. a., accursed, execrable, detestable: “non te exsecratum populo Romano, non detestabilem, etc. ... scias,” Cic. Phil. 2, 26 fin.: exsules duo, Cato ap. Prisc. p. 792 P.: “columna,” Cic. Phil. 1, 2, 5; Vulg. Apoc. 21, 8.—Sup.: “exsecratissima auguria,” Plin. 28, 2, 5, § 27.—
3. exsē^-crandus , a, um, as P. a., detestable (late Lat.); Vulg. Levit. 11, 10: libido, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 6, 4, 2 Huschke.—Sup.: “exsecrandissimum nefas,” Salv. Gub. D. 7, 19.
