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.]

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.

 

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