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third-person singular simple present imprecates, present participle imprecating, simple past and past participle imprecated
(transitive) To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous. quotations examples
To sailors, oaths are household words; they will swear in the trance of the calm, and in the teeth of the tempest; they will imprecate curses from the topsail-yard-arms, when most they teeter over to a seething sea; [...]
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 119”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley