Commination

  • 91threat — n 1. warning, intimidation, commination, caution, caveat, alarm, Archaic. alarum, notice, word to the wise, saber rattling. 2. menace, danger, peril, risk, hazard, jeopardy; time bomb, bomb, sleeping volcano, sword of Damocles, quicksand. 3. omen …

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  • 92Угроза —  ♦ (ENG commination)  (средневек. англ. от лат. comminari угрожать)    обряд покаяния, совершаемый в среду на первой неделе Великого поста и описанный в Книге общих молитв , с 1549 он был включен в Английскую книгу молитв и назван таким образом в …

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  • 93anathema — [n1] something hated abomination, bane, bugbear, detestation, enemy, hate, pariah; concept 529 Ant. love anathema [n2] denouncement ban, censure, commination, condemnation, curse, damnation, denunciation, excommunication, execration, imprecation …

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  • 94curse — [n1] hateful, swearing remark anathema, ban, bane, blaspheming, blasphemy, commination, cursing, cussing*, cuss word*, damning, denunciation, dirty name*, dirty word*, double whammy*, execration, expletive, four letter word*, fulmination,… …

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  • 95malediction — [n] curse anathema, commination, curse word, cuss, cuss word, damn, damnation, damning, darn, denunciation, dirty name*, dirty word*, execration, expletive, four letter word*, imprecation, jinx, no no*, oath, swear word, whammy*; concept 278 Ant …

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  • 96menace — [n] danger; pest annoyance, caution, commination, hazard, intimidation, jeopardy, nuisance, peril, plague, risk, scare, threat, thunder, trouble, troublemaker, warning; concepts 412,675 Ant. aid, assistance, help menace [v] bother, frighten alarm …

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  • 97threat — [n] warning; danger blackmail, bluff, commination, fix, foreboding, foreshadowing, fulmination, hazard, impendence, intimidation, menace, omen, peril, portent, presage, risk, thunder, writing on the wall*; concept 278 …

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  • 98comminatory — adj. threatening, denunciatory. Etymology: med.L comminatorius (as COMMINATION) …

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  • 99WORM — The word tola at or tole ah is employed in the Bible and the Talmud both for destructive caterpillars and for the rainworm; sometimes the combination rimmah ve tole ah (= maggots and worms) occurs. One of the curses in the commination of the… …

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