imprecate

Example Sentences

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"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 Ingemann, Bernhard Severin

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

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 Saxo, Grammaticus

To be a thorough expert in dog-training a man must be able to imprecate freely and with considerable variety in at least three different languages.

From The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America by Butler, William Francis