imprecationn.
/ɪmprɪˈkeɪʃən/ The action, or an act, of imprecating.† 2. A prayer, invocation, petition, entreaty. Obsolete.
1.
a. The action of invoking evil, calamity, or divine vengeance upon another, or upon oneself, in an oath or adjuration; cursing.
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the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > curse > [noun]
curse10..
imprecation1589
anathema1603
execration1688
the mind > language > malediction > [noun] > action of saying
cursingc950
waryingc1200
accursinga1382
execration1382
cursement1393
banninga1400
malloka1400
malediction1447
comminationa1464
imprecation1589
the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > curse > [noun] > action of saying
cursingc950
waryingc1200
accursinga1382
execration1382
cursement1393
banninga1400
malediction1447
detestation?a1475
imprecation1589
society > faith > worship > excommunication > imprecation > [noun]
imprecation1589
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 177 By way of exclamation or crying out..imprecation or cursing, obtestation or taking God and the world to witnes.
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xii. 119 The bare denyall of one man, though with imprecation, cannot in any reason countervaile.
1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 184 A cairn on your head, is a token of imprecation.
1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity II. v. xiii. 488 Arnulf's oath of fidelity..couched in terms of more than usual severity of imprecation.
b. (with plural) An invocation of evil, a curse.
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the mind > language > malediction > [noun]
cursea1050
malisonc1300
woea1425
evil thee1509
thunderbolt1559
vae1559
thunder-crack1577
ban1590
wish1597
anathema1603
imprecation1603
execration1605
thunder-clap1610
deprecationa1661
effulminationa1670
Maranatha1769
winze1786
cuss1829
sailor's blessing1876
blessing1878
sailor's farewell1937
society > faith > worship > excommunication > [noun] > rite of
cursea1050
sentencec1290
malisonc1300
censure138.
church censurec1460
ban1481
censurya1513
anathematism1567
anathema1603
imprecation1603
excommunication1702
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 489 When he had powred out grievous imprecations against those unthankfull Xanthiens.
1635 W. Habington Castara (ed. 2) ii. 127 Why lives the gamester, who doth black the night With cheats and imprecations?
1737 S. Berington Mem. G. di Lucca 298 He cursed himself with the most dreadful imprecations, if he were not [etc.].
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 145 He drove them from him with imprecations.
1883 J. A. Froude Short Stud. IV. i. x. 114 At each fierce imprecation he quenched a light, and dashed down a candle.
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the mind > language > speech > request > [noun] > invocation or appeal
bodec1175
stevenc1200
crya1300
askingc1330
prayerc1330
beseeching1340
invocationc1384
billc1386
conjuringa1400
pealc1400
conjurationc1450
adjuration?1473
remonstrance?1473
interpellation1526
contestation1548
address1570
vocation1574
imprecation1585
appellation1587
supplantation1590
advocation1598
application1607
invoking1611
inclamation1613
conjurement1643
bespeaking1661
vocative1747
incalling1850
appeal1859
appealing1876
appealingness1876
rogative1882
cri de cœur1897
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. ii. 115 After some imprecations made, [he] annoynted their sacrifice with oyle, milk and hony.
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 374 Brute..made his imprecation to the Goddesse to this effect.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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