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1 definition found 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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