execrator

Updated: June 21, 2025

The awful curse of the papal excommunication upon the chief magistrate of the Pontifical City, seemed to freeze up all the arteries of life. The Legate himself, affecting fear of his life, had fled to Monte Fiascone, where he was joined by the Barons immediately after the publication of the edict. The curse worked best in the absence of the execrator.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes

This loss brought on a fever, of which he died, in 1216 A.D., after eighteen years of reign and wind. A good execrator could here pause a few weeks and do well. History holds but few such characters as John, who was not successful even in crime.

Bill Nye - Comic History of England