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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
imprecate .
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Examples
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The graffiti of one wall denounces the current interim president, Micheletti, as 'Pinocheletti', or a Pinochet-styled fascist leader, while the adjacent wall imprecates Zelaya as an extreme leftist string-pulled by Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
Ashley Rindsberg: Honduran Tensions Rise As Curfew Enforced 2009
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He is still living in the palace, but his misfortunes have so unhinged him that he imprecates the most unholy curses on his sons, praying that they may have to draw the sword before they share this house between them.
The Phoenissae 2008
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He is still living in the palace, but his misfortunes have so unhinged him that he imprecates the most unholy curses on his sons, praying that they may have to draw the sword before they share this house between them.
The Phoenissae 2008
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The subjects are frequently pastoral: the lover for instance invites his mistress to walk with him towards the well in Lahelo, the Arcadia of the land; he compares her legs to the tall straight Libi tree, and imprecates the direst curses on her head if she refuse to drink with him the milk of his favourite camel.
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In some instances this was true enough, but when the writer attacks Dryden he becomes ridiculous and imprecates
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He is still living in the palace, but sick in mind through his misfortunes he imprecates the most unhallowed curses on his children, that they may share this house with the sharpened sword.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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Jacques groans, and imprecates -- sleep to descend upon his friend.
The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 Anonymous
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The veracious historian makes obtestation of the strict truth of his narrative, and imprecates all sorts of evil upon such as do not believe it absolutely.
Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson
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The scene rapidly changes to the shore, where Ajax cries to the gods, imprecates his foes, prays to
Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb
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"Bernhardt's back expresses a storm of fury when she imprecates vengeance," said the voice of authority.
What Dress Makes of Us Dorothy Quigley
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