imprecate

From Latin imprecari (“to invoke (good or evil) upon, pray to, call upon”), from in (“upon”) + precari (“to pray”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪmpɹəkeɪt/

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imprecate (third-person singular simple present imprecates, present participle imprecating, simple past and past participle imprecated)

1. (transitive) To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 119”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     To sailors, oaths are household words; they will swear in the trance of the calm, and in the teeth of the tempest; they will imprecate curses from the topsail-yard-arms, when most they teeter over to a seething sea; [...]

• imprecation
• imprecatory

• “imprecate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “imprecate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “imprecate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

imprecate

1. inflection of imprecare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

imprecate f pl

1. feminine plural of imprecato

• campirete

imprecāte

1. vocative masculine singular of imprecātus

imprecate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of imprecar combined with te