Middle English Dictionary Entry
execrāble adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | execrāble adj. |
| Etymology | L exsecrābilis. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Deserving or fit to be cursed; damnable, accursed.
Associated quotations
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Roy 1.B.6)2 Pet.2.11 : Wher aungels..beren not aȝens hem the execrable..doom [L execrabile judicium].
- (1395) Wycl.37 Concl.(Tit D.1)17 : [He] that..fulfillith not Goddis lawe in werk shall be execrable, other cursid.
- c1475(1459) Pros.Yorkists in EHR 26 (Roy 17.D.15)518 : They..by thar fastigious and usurped power did mayntein and auctoryse thaire execrable trespas.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)87/2 : He that putteþ away his eres that they here noȝt the lawe of God, his prayere is execrable.