Crossword-Solution: EXECRATORY 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 22

The form commonly used, “So help me God and these holy Gospels!” has an execratory sense, the meaning being “May God help me if I speak truly, may He deny me help if I speak falsely!” (c) By reason of the person invoked, an oath is either explicit or implicit.

There is nothing new under the sun; the word "anathema" originally meant a votive offering: one of those execratory tablets, deposited in the sacred places, by means of which the ancient Greeks committed their enemies to the wrath of the Infernal Goddesses.

There was not less inconvenience in the execratory oath of the famous masonic secret, for which no adequate object has been discovered, unless it was one which no longer exists.

From these facts it appears, that the execratory oath is without a motive or object in modern masonic lodges.

Editor, imagine any thing more expressive of loneliness, and desire for intelligence, than this young wife’s capital N.B., with the execratory citation from her husband’s vocabulary--or more sportively affectionate than the “twist up” of her kiss, with “Bob” Lobski asleep on her lap.