imprecate

Did not my father imprecate the wrath of Heaven upon me, if I held communion with her or hers?

From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by William Davy Watson

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

From The Alaskan by James Oliver Curwood

Bowing my head to think—to pray—to imprecate, I lost all sense of time and place.

From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut

Further, he made the priests imprecate curses on any one who had dealings with the Persians or deserted the Greek cause.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Aubrey Stewart

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

Then turning towards his younger brothers, he imprecated a curse upon them if they should follow the example of their elder brethren.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 269, August 18, 1827 by Various

He imprecated with a hoarse and furious voice a thousand curses upon those attendants who had permitted his captive to escape.

From Imogen A Pastoral Romance by William Godwin

He banned them bitterly; with uplifted hands and eyes he imprecated the vengeance of Heaven on their disobedience.

From Folk-lore and Legends: German by Anonymous

My father, in the first agitations of his mind, on discovering your wicked, your shameful elopement, imprecated on his knees a fearful curse upon you.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Samuel Richardson

Should we grant that Moses here imprecated on himself the greatest evil, a sense of other people's sins, and not a sense of his own sins, was the occasion.

From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Andrew Lee

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

Bear witness, gods, you heard him bid me go; You, whom he mocked with imprecating vows Of promised faith!—I'll die; I will not bear it.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Sir Walter Scott

He was standing up, waving the loose ends of the reins about his head, and imprecating his horses into a gallop.

From Neighbours by Robert J. C. Stead

Mentally imprecating the cold, he exposed his bare hands and lighted another cigar.

From The Turtles of Tasman by Jack London