Sentence:  On the street outside , Hieronymus envisions a holocaust of the vanities of this world , such a burning of artistic and erotic productions as his namesake actually brought to pass in Florence , and prophetically he issues his <WSD>curse</WSD> : `` Gladius Dei super terram cito et velociter '' . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil on someone or some group