Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Imprecate

Imprecate , transitive verb

[Latin imprecatus, past participle of imprecari to imprecate; pref. im- in, on + precari to pray. See Pray.]

1.
To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.
Imprecate the vengeance of Heaven on the guilty empire. — Mickle
2.
To invoke evil upon; to curse; to swear at.
In vain we blast the ministers of Fate, And the forlorn physicians imprecate. — Rochester