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To devote to destruction; to imprecate misery or evil upon; to curse; to execrate; to anathematize.

And sullenly, with stealthy gestures of menace, they retreated towards the entrance; and gabbling more loudly as they approached it, seemed to be imprecating vengeance on those who cast them out.

When they were pressed to speak of religion, they burst into curses, and imprecated vengeance on their judge and jury, saying they were hung as poor rogues, but many worse escaped because they were rich.

It was then that I remembered the vengeance which I had imprecated upon her head; and it was she who was avenged!

Those of you who were with Cambyses when sick remember what he imprecated on the Persians if they did not seek to regain the dominion.