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English Dictionary: imprecate	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for imprecate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
imprecate v wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child" Synonym(s): curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict Antonym(s): bless utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street" Synonym(s): curse, cuss, blaspheme, swear, imprecate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Imprecate \Im"precate\, 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}.] 1. To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous. Imprecate* the vengeance of Heaven on the guilty empire. --Mickle. 2. To invoke evil upon; to curse; to swear at. In vain we blast the ministers of Fate, And the forlorn physicians imprecate. --Rochester.