imprecate

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"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

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

At other times he would imprecate maledictions upon his head, and curse him as her destroyer.

From The Vampyre; a Tale by Polidori, John William

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)

To imprecate evil on any living being seems to them unchristian, barbarous, a relic of dark ages and dark superstitions.

From Town and Country Sermons by Kingsley, Charles