imprecate

Example Sentences

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How often did I imprecate curses on the cause of my being!

From Frankenstein by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

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

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 Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

"I know his features," he exclaimed with indignation: "I assert his innocence; and I imprecate the same, a juster fate, against the authors of his death."

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Milman, Henry Hart

He never made man after his own image to imprecate the wrath of heaven by blackening earth with his foul deeds.

From Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter by Adams, F. Colburn (Francis Colburn)