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imprecate
1. b And by you shall all who curse, curse; and all the sinners and godless shall imprecate by you,
2. b And by you shall all who curse curse; and all the sinners and godless shall imprecate by you
3. There can be no surer indication of the deep popular disbelief than this—that the habitual language of profane cursing and swearing, which nominally is derived from the orthodox doctrine of damnation, runs from the lips of the utterers without the faintest sign of faith in the reality of what they imprecate on each other’s heads
4. repress a mother's anguish; lest, in bitterness of soul, I imprecate the wrath of heaven on this tiger, who tore my only comfort from me
5. 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
6. Oh, earth! How often did I imprecate curses on the cause of my being! The mildness of my nature had fled, and all within me was turned to gall and bitterness