imprecate

To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

There was nothing for him to resent, nothing for him to imprecate but his own folly.

From The Alaskan by James Oliver Curwood

To be a thorough expert in dog-training a man must be able to imprecate freely and with considerable variety in at least three different languages.

From The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America by William Francis Butler

Wherefore at once my faith, my hope, my fire My soul doth imprecate, ere she expire.

From The Decameron, Volume I by J. M. (James Macmullen) Rigg

But now there is scarcely a tongue in all New England that does not imprecate curses on his name.

From Grandfather's Chair by Nathaniel Hawthorne

If then this man was Laius, he had imprecated a curse on himself; his one hope is the solitary survivor whom he had sent for; perhaps more than one man had killed Laius after all.

From Authors of Greece by T. W. Lumb

Those of you who were with Cambyses when sick remember what he imprecated on the Persians if they did not seek to regain the dominion.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Max Duncker

He imprecated bitter curses on the palace where she died, and he ordered it to be destroyed.

From Richard II Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

He resisted, he prayed, he imprecated; and his father, too, who had no idea of proclaiming the affair in this way, did his utmost to prevail upon them to leave Miss Rety's name unmentioned.

From The Village Notary by J?zsef E?tv?s

I have undone them all, and will know no comfort—Then letting go his hold, and falling upon his knees, he imprecated curses on himself.

From The Gamester (1753) by Charles H. Peake

He throws effort into this record, whining, yammering, imprecating, imitating himself fabulously.

From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2011

Thousands of pleading, imprecating letters from cloak-and-suit men the country over forced him to change his mind.

From Time Magazine Archive

The young couple broke a piece of gold together, and pledged their troth in the most solemn manner, the young lady, it is said, imprecating dreadful evils on herself should she break her plighted faith.

From Strange Pages from Family Papers by T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer

And sullenly, with stealthy gestures of menace, they retreated towards the entrance; and gabbling more loudly as they approached it, seemed to be imprecating vengeance on those who cast them out.

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Stanley J. Weyman

Her father, partaking of her grief, and imprecating the king of Egypt, did not doubt but this accident foretold some fatal event.

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