imprecate
verb/ˈɪmpɹəkeɪt/
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin imprecātus, perfect active participle of imprecor (“to invoke (good or evil) upon, pray to, call upon”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“upon”) + precor (“to pray”).
- borrowed from imprecātus
Definitions
To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.
- 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; [...]
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA