imprecate

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

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

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 Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut

"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 Henry Hart Milman

O Man: Pass not all heedless by, nor imprecate This aged relic of the past because It lies across thy path!

From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6 by Various

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

From Grandfather's Chair by Nathaniel Hawthorne

He resisted, he prayed, he imprecated; and his father, too, who had no idea of proclaiming the affair in this way, did his utmost to prevail upon them to leave Miss Rety's name unmentioned.

From The Village Notary by J?zsef E?tv?s

He imprecated bitter curses on the palace where she died, and he ordered it to be destroyed.

From Richard II Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

In the station, men wept and imprecated in their despair; twice they tried to go to the rescue of the beleaguered men, but could not reach them.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various

I further remember that I was not the only Sixty-firster that imprecated in strong Saxon.

From Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 As Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Sixty-First Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry by Charles Augustus Fuller

I have undone them all, and will know no comfort—Then letting go his hold, and falling upon his knees, he imprecated curses on himself.

From The Gamester (1753) by Charles H. Peake

He throws effort into this record, whining, yammering, imprecating, imitating himself fabulously.

From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2011

Thousands of pleading, imprecating letters from cloak-and-suit men the country over forced him to change his mind.

From Time Magazine Archive

And sullenly, with stealthy gestures of menace, they retreated towards the entrance; and gabbling more loudly as they approached it, seemed to be imprecating vengeance on those who cast them out.

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Stanley J. Weyman

As I drew nearer they seemed to forget their agonies, and joined in a glad, wild chorus of imprecating welcome to me.

From The Boy Nihilist or, Young America in Russia by Allan Arnold

Within the room the men and women jostled each other in the darkness, or jammed imprecating in the narrow doorway.

From Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman by Will Lillibridge