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imprecate

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Scrabble points
15
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18
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈɪmpɹəkeɪt/

Definition of imprecate

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.
    “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; [...]”

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin imprecātus, perfect active participle of imprecor (“to invoke (good or evil) upon, pray to, call upon”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“upon”) + precor (“to pray”).

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