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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

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imp. & p. p.

Imprecated

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p. pr. & vb. n.

Imprecating

[L.

imprecatus

, p. p. of

imprecari

to imprecate; pref.

im-

in, on +

precari

to pray. See

To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.

Imprecate

the vengeance of Heaven on the guilty empire.

Mickle.

To invoke evil upon; to curse; to swear at.

In vain we blast the ministers of Fate,
And the forlorn physicians

imprecate

Rochester.

Verb.

[L. imprecor; in and precor, to pray. See Pray.]

To invoke, as an evil on any one; to pray that a curse or calamity may fall on one's self or on another person.