Definitions for imprecate

imprecate im·pre·cate

Spelling: [im-pri-keyt]
IPA: /ˈɪm prɪˌkeɪt/

Imprecate is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 554 anagrams from letters in imprecate (aceeimprt).

Definitions for imprecate

verb (used with object)

  1. to invoke or call down (evil or curses), as upon a person.

Origin of imprecate

1605-15; Latin imprecātus past participle of imprecārī to invoke, pray to or for, equivalent to im- im-1 + prec- Examples for imprecate

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

Bowing my head to think—to pray—to imprecate, I lost all sense of time and place.

There was nothing for him to resent, nothing for him to imprecate but his own folly.

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.

I know not what I ought to imprecate on the wretches who had spread a report of your death.

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