OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 14504

imprecate

/ˈɪmpɹəkeɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
imprecar
To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.
To sailors, oaths are household words; they will swear in the trance of the calm, and in the teeth of the tempest; they will imprecate curses from the topsail-yard-arms, when most…
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