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Imprecate v. t. (past & past part. imprecated; pres. part. imprecating)

To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous. "Imprecate the vengeance of Heaven on the guilty empire."

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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Etymology of 'Imprecate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Imprecate" Quotes from Famous Books

... when the mighty cause, Of George and Britain, is endangered? For nobly struggling, in the cause of kings, We claim the high, the just prerogative, To rule mankind, and with an iron rod, Exact submission, due, tho' absolute. What tho' they style me, villain, murderer, And imprecate from Heaven, dire thunderbolts, To crush my purposes—Was that a gun, Which thunders o'er the wave?—Or is it guilt, That plays the coward, with my trembling heart, And cools the blood, with frightful images. O guilt, thy blackness, hovers on the mind, Nor can the ...

— The Battle of Bunkers-Hill • Hugh Henry Brackenridge

Words linked to "Imprecate" : verbalise, conjure, beshrew, utter, bless, call forth, cuss, bedamn, invoke, blaspheme, curse, bring up, put forward, express, stir, anathemize, imprecation, call down, anathemise, maledict, swear