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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Imprecate

· Im·pre·cate · IPA /ˈɪmpɹəkeɪt/
01 v. t. To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.
imp. & p. p. Imprecated; p. pr. & vb. n. Imprecating
  1. 1.
    To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.
    Imprecate the vengeance of Heaven on the guilty empire.” — Mickle.
  2. 2.
    To invoke evil upon; to curse; to swear at.
    “In vain we blast the ministers of Fate, And the forlorn physicians imprecate.” — Rochester.