Imprecate vs Imprecatory - What's the difference?
imprecate | imprecatory |
To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.
To invoke evil upon; to curse; to swear at.
* 1851 ,
As a verb imprecate
is to call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.As an adjective imprecatory is
that imprecates.imprecate
English
Verb
(imprecat)- 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; [...]
