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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  Imprecate  the  vengeance  of  Heaven  on  the  guilty 
  empire.  --Mickle. 
 
  2.  To  invoke  evil  upon  to  curse;  to  swear  at 
 
  In  vain  we  blast  the  ministers  of  Fate,  And  the 
  forlorn  physicians  imprecate.  --Rochester. 




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