a. [f. execrāt- ppl. stem of execrāri (exsecrāri) to EXECRATE + -IVE.] Of or pertaining to execration; prone to execration; characterized by or containing an execration.
1830. G. P. R. James, Darnley, xxvii. 121. Manifold … opportunities … for the captain and pilot to exercise their execrative faculties.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. I. i. Into the body of the poor Tatars execrative Roman History intercalated an alphabetic letter; and so they continue Tartars of fell Tartarean nature, to this day. Ibid. (1871), in Mrs. Carlyle’s Lett., II. 99. On which day Nigger Question [in ‘Fraser’] had come out with execrative shrieks from several people.
Hence Execratively adv.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. I. i. When … those Northmen … came in … foul old Rome screamed execratively her loudest.
