Sentence example with the word 'imprecate'

imprecate

Definition v. wish harm upon

Last update: July 22, 2015


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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; but in all my voyagings, seldom have I heard a common oath when God's burning finger has been laid on the ship; when His "Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin" has been woven into the shrouds and the cordage.   [Please select]

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But now, there is scarcely a tongue in all New England that does not imprecate curses on his name.   [Please select]

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