Comminatory: alternatives and connections

An exclamation, expressive of surprise, pity, complaint, entreaty, contempt, threatening, delight, triumph, etc., according to the man…

To surprise with apprehension of danger; to fill with anxiety in regard to threatening evil; to excite with sudden fear.

The act of anathematizing, or denouncing as accursed; imprecation.

The first of the two terms of a ratio; the first or third of the four terms of a proportion. In the ratio a:b, a is the antecedent, an…

An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, ac…

The posture or position of a person or an animal, or the manner in which the parts of his body are disposed; position assumed or studi…

(mathematics) a quantity expressed as a sum or difference of two terms; a polynomial with two terms

Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.

Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding.

To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to black…

Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language.

Boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace.

A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow.

The act of chastising; pain inflicted for punishment and correction; discipline; punishment.

That which has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect; that which temporarily overshadows, obscures, or depresses; as, a cloud of sor…

A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance.

Mutual agreement to terms or conditions for the settlement of a difference or controversy; also, the terms or conditions of settlement…

Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment itself.