imprecate

How To Use imprecate In A Sentence

• At first she had imprecated curses on her brothers, and cried, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867
• My father, in the first agitations of his mind, on discovering your wicked, your shameful elopement, imprecated on his knees a fearful curse upon you. Clarissa Harlowe
• Should we grant that Moses here imprecated on himself the greatest evil, a sense of other people's sins, and not a sense of his own sins, was the occasion. Sermons on Various Important Subjects
• Jack imprecated evil upon his enemies.
• ‘She was talking about learning some spells and the like here as well,’ Mira chipped in from someplace to my left, and I imprecated her with a colorful phrase inside the recesses in my brain.
• And then repeated a most solemn protestation, “That he was no more the father of Jones than the Pope of Rome;” and imprecated the most bitter curses on his head, if he did not speak truth. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
• The veracious historian makes obtestation of the strict truth of his narrative, and imprecates all sorts of evil upon such as do not believe it absolutely. Classic French Course in English
• The defaulters imprecate on themselves, quicquid haben: telorum armamentaria coeli: the part of Judas, the leprosy of Gieza, the tremor of Cain, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Should it be admitted that Moses here imprecated utter destruction on himself, it could not be alleged as a precept given to direct others, but only as a solitary incident, in the history of a saint, who was then compassed with infirmity. Sermons on Various Important Subjects
• God, whose anger she had so rashly imprecated upon herself, or her husband. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1