imprecate

He never made man after his own image to imprecate the wrath of heaven by blackening earth with his foul deeds.

From Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

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 Samuel Richardson

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 I. Stone Sanpietro

Wherefore at once my faith, my hope, my fire My soul doth imprecate, ere she expire.

From The Decameron, Volume I by J. M. (James Macmullen) Rigg

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

He, with unabashed forehead, imprecated on his own head all evil here and hereafter if he was guilty.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

Those of you who were with Cambyses when sick remember what he imprecated on the Persians if they did not seek to regain the dominion.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Max Duncker

What I said, spoke, begged, or imprecated, Heaven knows—not I. But they stirred not!

From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Charles James Lever

That it was by no means consistent that now, when it was lawful and their duty, they should not exert their power against persons, on whom they had severally imprecated the vengeance of the gods.

From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Titus Livius

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 Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Hamlin Garland

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

Her two hands shot up, dropped, shot up again, imprecating, cursing the world, the sky, the whole scheme of the universe, it seemed.

From A Spirit in Prison by Robert Smythe Hichens

The young couple broke a piece of gold together, and pledged their troth in the most solemn manner, the young lady, it is said, imprecating dreadful evils on herself should she break her plighted faith.

From Strange Pages from Family Papers by T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer

Mentally imprecating the cold, he exposed his bare hands and lighted another cigar.

From The Turtles of Tasman by Jack London