imprecate

Example Sentences

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

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

"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

How often did I imprecate curses on the cause of my being!

From Frankenstein by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

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