comminate
\ KOM-uh-neyt \, verb;
1.to threaten with divine punishment or vengeance.
2.to curse; anathematize.
Quotes:
Gronow, if he comminates his neighbour's congregation, is the affectionate father of his own.
-- William Makepeace Thackeray, “Our Street,” The Christmas Books of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh , 1868
Anita is disturbed but Michael comminates that he will reserve her case tomorrow for the ordinary Guglielmus even if she should practise a pious fraud during affrication…
-- James Joyce, Finnegan's Wake , 1939
Origin:
Comminate is a back formation of the word commination meaning "a threat of punishment or vengeance."
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