imprecate

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"Bernhardt's back expresses a storm of fury when she imprecates vengeance," said the voice of authority.

From What Dress Makes of Us by Quigley, Dorothy

He imprecates against the head of them that compassed him about, and consequently against Saul.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander

She imprecates the licentious world of crafty burghers, coquettes, gamblers, well-fed millionaires, cursed geese and serpents that make the cowardly vile world, and whom she would smite in the face with her indignant verse.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley

His countenance distorted with agony, and his soul agitated almost to madness, he imprecates vengeance upon his own head.

From The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency by Trusler, John

"Ocy, ocy," is supposed to come from the Latin "occidere," to kill; or rather the old French, "occire," "occis," denoting the doom which the nightingale imprecates or supplicates on all who do offence to Love.

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing