imprecation

How To Use imprecation In A Sentence

• The excommunication was interpreted as an "imprecation" that cursed all Freemasons and doomed them to perdition. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
• Trunnion no sooner heard him mention the cause of her disorder, than his morosity recurring, he burst out into a violent fit of cursing, and forthwith betook himself again to his hammock, where he lay, uttering, in a low growling tone of voice, a repetition of oaths and imprecations, for the space of four-and-twenty hours, without ceasing. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
• The figure of exclamation, I call him [_the outcrie_] because it vtters our minde by all such words as do shew any extreme passion, whether it be by way of exclamation or crying out, admiration or wondering, imprecation or cursing, obtestation or taking God and the world to witnes, or any such like as declare an impotent affection, as _Chaucer_ of the _Lady The Arte of English Poesie
• Finally, his closing remarks were deadly: An overly flowery imprecation to courage that, ironically, made him sound utterly impotent: Obama's Speech: Not The Turning Point He Had In Mind
• Or put case they escape, and rest unmasked to their lives 'end, yet after their death their memory stinks as a snuff of a candle put out, and those that durst not so much as mutter against them in their lives, will prosecute their name with satires, libels, and bitter imprecations, they shall male audire in all succeeding ages, and be odious to the world's end. Anatomy of Melancholy
• he suffered the imprecations of the mob
• Never before had I left without him screaming imprecations or singing foul songs or asking for a final recitation of our mother's pain. THE HUNDREDTH MAN
• And death (as yet) being deafe to all his earnest imprecations, delayed him on in lingering afflictions: and continuing still in such an extreame condition, he was advised by some of his best friends, utterly to abstaine from this fond pursuit, because his hopes were meerely in vaine, and Madam Catulla prized nothing more precious to her in the World, then unstayned loyaltie to her The Decameron
• Croft galloped past the cart, the farmer's imprecations following him down the road.
• But supposing there were any credit to be had to this passage, were the sacred penmen any way concerned in these curses and imprecations? From the Talmud and Hebraica