A curse, a curse word.
A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.
A solemn pledge or promise that invokes a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.
A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge.
An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
An invocation of that right.
A technique or mechanism for discarding what would otherwise constitute a false positive in a scientific experiment
A political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.
To use a veto against.