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Word Meanings - IMPRECATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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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.

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  • INVITER
    One who, or that which, invites.
  • CONJUREMENT
    Serious injunction; solemn demand or entreaty. Milton.
  • IMPETRATE
    Obtained by entreaty. Ld. Herbert.
  • OBSECRATE
    To beseech; to supplicate; to implore. . Cockerman. (more info) on religious grounds; ob + sacrare to declare as sacred,
  • APPEALER
    One who makes an appeal.
  • BESEECH
    1. To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore. I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts. Shak. But Eve . . . besought his peace. Milton. Syn. -- To beg; to crave. -- To Beseech, Entreat, Solicit, Implore, Supplicate.
  • INVOCATE
    To invoke; to call on, or for, in supplication; to implore. If Dagon be thy god, Go to his temple, invocate his aid. Milton.
  • ALLOWEDLY
    By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
  • ALLOW
    allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
  • CONJURER
    One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner.
  • APPEAL
    appellare to approach, address, invoke, summon, call, name; akin to appellere to drive to; ad + pellere to drive. See Pulse, and cf. To make application for the removal of from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review
  • ALLOWER
    1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
  • ENTREATY
    1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;
  • CONJURE
    To call on or summon by a sacred name or in solemn manner; to implore earnestly; to adjure. I conjure you, let him know, Whate'er was done against him, Cato did it. Addison.
  • ENTREATFUL
    Full of entreaty. See Intreatful.
  • IMPLORER
    One who implores.
  • SUMMONS
    A warning or citation to appear in court; a written notification signed by the proper officer, to be served on a person, warning him to appear in court at a day specified, to answer to the plaintiff, testify as a witness, or the like. (more info)
  • BESEECHING
    Entreating urgently; imploring; as, a beseeching look. -- Be*seech"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*seech"ing*ness, n.
  • IMPLORE
    To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to prey to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urency; to entreat; to beg; -- followed directly by the word expressing the thing sought, or the person from whom it is sought. Imploring all the
  • CHALLENGE
    The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game. (more info) chalenge, chalonge, claim, accusation, contest, fr. L. calumnia false 1. An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance;
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • HALLOW
    To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
  • THRYFALLOW
    To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
  • SALLOWISH
    Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
  • WALLOWER
    A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
  • IMMIGRANT
    One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
  • MALLOWWORT
    Any plant of the order Malvaceæ.
  • SWALLOWFISH
    The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
  • TALLOW-FACED
    Having a sickly complexion; pale. Burton.
  • TALLOWY
    Of the nature of tallow; resembling tallow; greasy.
  • FLAGRANT
    1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in

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