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

Further, he made the priests imprecate curses on any one who had dealings with the Persians or deserted the Greek cause.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Stewart, Aubrey

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

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 Hawthorne, Nathaniel

"I know his features," he exclaimed with indignation: "I assert his innocence; and I imprecate the same, a juster fate, against the authors of his death."

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Milman, Henry Hart