imprecate

Example Sentences

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

From True Stories of History and Biography by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

O Man: Pass not all heedless by, nor imprecate This aged relic of the past because It lies across thy path!

From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6 by Various

Then rose a roar of indignation against the Englishmen who had dared, under the hypocritical pretence of devotion, to imprecate curses on England.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

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

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

Daughter, to thy father go back with good cheer; nor imprecate swift death upon us, nor let choler shake thy bosom.

From The Danish History, Books I-IX by Saxo, Grammaticus