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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
imprecate
    v 1: wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the
         child" [syn: curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn,
         anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict] [ant:
         bless]
    2: utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were
       cursing loudly in the street" [syn: curse, cuss,
       blaspheme, swear, imprecate]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Imprecate \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.
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            Imprecate the vengeance of Heaven on the guilty
            empire.                               --Mickle.
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   2. To invoke evil upon; to curse; to swear at.
      [1913 Webster]

            In vain we blast the ministers of Fate,
            And the forlorn physicians imprecate. --Rochester.
      [1913 Webster]

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