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Imprecate   Listen
verb
Imprecate  v. t.  (past & past part. imprecated; pres. part. imprecating)  
1.
To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous. "Imprecate the vengeance of Heaven on the guilty empire."
2.
To invoke evil upon; to curse; to swear at. "In vain we blast the ministers of Fate, And the forlorn physicians imprecate."





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"Imprecate" Quotes from Famous Books



... admitted but at the recommendation and responsibility of members, who imprecate his death, if he betrays fear during his initiation into the ceremonies, or the sacred mysteries of the association; from which females are ...
— Observations Upon The Windward Coast Of Africa • Joseph Corry


Words linked to "Imprecate" :   put forward, damn, stir, bless, raise, cuss, maledict, blaspheme, curse, arouse, call forth, swear, beshrew, verbalise, imprecation, call down, invoke, express, give tongue to, bring up, anathemize, utter, evoke, bedamn, conjure, verbalize


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