imprecate

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

"Swear!" he said: "imprecate a curse upon thyself if thou hast said anything untrue to save thy master."

From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin

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