imprecate

Example Sentences

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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

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 Watson, William Davy

So they implore and imprecate, turning themselves into the ugliest and fiercest creatures they can, to frighten the evil spirits that they believe have come against them on the outspread wings of the storm.

From My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) by Sanpietro, I. Stone

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 Butler, William Francis