IMPRECATED

Verb

imprecated

simple past tense and past participle of imprecate

Anagrams

• mercaptide, reimpacted

Source: Wiktionary


IMPRECATE

Im"pre*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Imprecated; p. pr. & vb. n. Imprecating.] Etym: [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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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