imprecate

There was nothing for him to resent, nothing for him to imprecate but his own folly.

From The Alaskan by James Oliver Curwood

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

From Public Speaking by Clarence Stratton

But now there is scarcely a tongue in all New England that does not imprecate curses on his name.

From Grandfather's Chair by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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 Charles Kingsley

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 Samuel Richardson

I have undone them all, and will know no comfort—Then letting go his hold, and falling upon his knees, he imprecated curses on himself.

From The Gamester (1753) by Charles H. Peake

It bewailed the fallen honours of the Abencerrages, and imprecated vengeance on their oppressors.

From Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Washington Irving

He resisted, he prayed, he imprecated; and his father, too, who had no idea of proclaiming the affair in this way, did his utmost to prevail upon them to leave Miss Rety's name unmentioned.

From The Village Notary by J?zsef E?tv?s

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 Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Hamlin Garland

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

One solemn mode of swearing was by kissing the dirk, imprecating upon themselves death by that, or a similar weapon, if they broke their vow.

From The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott

The young couple broke a piece of gold together, and pledged their troth in the most solemn manner, the young lady, it is said, imprecating dreadful evils on herself should she break her plighted faith.

From Strange Pages from Family Papers by T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer

Her two hands shot up, dropped, shot up again, imprecating, cursing the world, the sky, the whole scheme of the universe, it seemed.

From A Spirit in Prison by Robert Smythe Hichens