imprecate
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Daughter, to thy father go back with good cheer; nor imprecate swift death upon us, nor let choler shake thy bosom.
From The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo
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 True Stories of History and Biography by Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Swear!" he said: "imprecate a curse upon thyself if thou hast said anything untrue to save thy master."
From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Bernhard Severin Ingemann
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
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
He banned them bitterly; with uplifted hands and eyes he imprecated the vengeance of Heaven on their disobedience.
From Folk-lore and Legends: German by Anonymous
He imprecated with a hoarse and furious voice a thousand curses upon those attendants who had permitted his captive to escape.
From Imogen A Pastoral Romance by William Godwin
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
The Padma Puran ascribes the origin of the particular form under which this symbol is represented, to the effects of a curse imprecated on Shiva by Bhrigu.
From Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India by Hargrave Jennings
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
Round him he heard nothing but confused noises from the camp, the cries of the soldiers imprecating a thousand evils upon his head.
As also Psal. cix. the Psalmist personates Christ, complaining of, and imprecating against his enemies; particularly Judas the traitor, verse 8.
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 Alexander Shields
If he fell into a slumber, he beheld in his dreams the shadowy phantoms of the necromantic tower, or the injured Florinda, pale and dishevelled, imprecating the vengeance of Heaven upon his head.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Lewis Gaylord Clark
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