Meanings of imprecate in English

How often did I imprecate curses on the cause of my being!

Bowing my head to think-topray-toimprecate, I lost all sense of time and place.

At other times he would imprecate maledictions upon his head, and curse him as her destroyer.

Pass not all heedless by, nor imprecate

He ceased to imprecate only when, by repetition, his oaths became too inexpressive to be worth while.

But now there is scarcely a tongue in all New England that does not imprecate curses on his name.

To imprecate evil on any living being seems to them unchristian, barbarous, a relic of dark ages and dark superstitions.

Further, he made the priests imprecate curses on any one who had dealings with the Persians or deserted the Greek cause.

He never made man after his own image to imprecate the wrath of heaven by blackening earth with his foul deeds.

He began, therefore, to imprecate vengeance, walked himself into a fair, cold-hearted, malicious passion, and avowed most distinctly that he hated her.

Bess replied: Daughter, to thy father go back with good cheer; nor imprecate swift death upon us, nor let choler shake thy bosom.

To be a thorough expert in dog-training a man must be able to imprecate freely and with considerable variety in at least three different languages.

This I removed, mentally imprecating the rogue of a red squirrel.

Mentally imprecating the cold, he exposed his bare hands and lighted another cigar.

It bewailed the fallen honours of the Abencerrages, and imprecated vengeance on their oppressors.

By imprecating unhallowed curses on the royal family.