The Collaborative International Dictionary
Imprecate \Im"pre*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Imprecated; p. pr. & vb. n. Imprecating.] [L. imprecatus, p. p. of imprecari to imprecate; pref. im- in, on + precari to pray. See Pray.]
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To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.
Imprecate the vengeance of Heaven on the guilty empire.
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To invoke evil upon; to curse; to swear at.
In vain we blast the ministers of Fate, And the forlorn physicians imprecate.
--Rochester.
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vb. (present participle of imprecate English)
Usage examples of "imprecating".
Their captain had spent the battle huddled alongside Hunnar, jabbing occasionally with his sword while expending most of his energy in imprecating his ancestors for getting him into this trouble.
Any time thereafter that the mule balked, Valentine just brandished his leafy shillelagh, imprecating against it in the glottal nonsense that worked on the recalcitrant beast.