imprecate

Example Sentences

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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

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

"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

O thou guileful betrayer! there is a just God, whom thou invokest: yet the thunderbolt descends not; and thou livest to imprecate and deceive!

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Richardson, Samuel

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)