imprecate

Example Sentences

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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 Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

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

He ceased to imprecate only when, by repetition, his oaths became too inexpressive to be worth while.

From The Eagle's Heart by Garland, Hamlin

V. To curse, accurse, imprecate, scold, rail, execrate.

From Public Speaking by Stratton, Clarence

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