Definitions for imprecates

imprecates im·pre·cate

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

Imprecates is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 1241 anagrams from letters in imprecates (aceeimprst).

Definitions for imprecates

verb (used with object)

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

Origin of imprecates

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Word Value for imprecates
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