imprecate
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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
To imprecate evil on any living being seems to them unchristian, barbarous, a relic of dark ages and dark superstitions.
From Town and Country Sermons by Kingsley, Charles
He never made man after his own image to imprecate the wrath of heaven by blackening earth with his foul deeds.
From Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter by Adams, F. Colburn (Francis Colburn)
Did not my father imprecate the wrath of Heaven upon me, if I held communion with her or hers?
From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy
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)
"Out upon a prayer who imprecated our parting!"
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
"Sapristi!" imprecated Maryan, and immediately he laughed again.
From The Argonauts by Curtin, Jeremiah
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 Godwin, William
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
In the station, men wept and imprecated in their despair; twice they tried to go to the rescue of the beleaguered men, but could not reach them.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various
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
His peroration consisted of a luxuriant use of imprecating adjectives which stamped him as a person of original thought.
From The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century by Runciman, Walter
Voices were indeed occasionally heard invoking the blessings of the gods upon them, or imprecating curses upon the head of the scourge Aurelian.
From Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra by Ware, William
Bear witness, gods, you heard him bid me go; You, whom he mocked with imprecating vows Of promised faith!—I'll die; I will not bear it.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Scott, Walter, Sir
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