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imprecates
vb. (en-third-person singular of: imprecate)
Usage examples of "imprecates".
But, before they would receive this mark of friendship, they pulled off their moccasins: a custom, as we afterward learned, which indicates the sacred sincerity of their professions when they smoke with a stranger, and which imprecates on themselves the misery of going barefoot forever if they prove faithless to their words--a penalty by no means light for those who rove over the thorny plains of this country.