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Definition of Imprecated
1. imprecate [v] - See also: imprecate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imprecated
Literary usage of Imprecated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of the Church by Robert Southey (1825)
"By pious Protestants, as well as Papists, the Abbey lands were believed to carry
with them the curse which their first donors imprecated upon all who should ..."
2. A Manual of the Mahommedan Law of Inheritance and Contract, Comprising the by Standish Grove Grady, William Hay Macnaghten (1869)
"a half-brother by the mother, and an imprecated son (of his father), the mother
would take a third, the half-brother by the mother one-sixth, ..."
3. Herodotus by Herodotus (1831)
"When Joshua destroyed Jericho, he imprecated a severe curse upon whoever should
attempt to rebuild It. This was, however, at a distant period of time ..."
4. The Muhammadan Law: Being a Digest of the Law Applicable Especially to the by Shama Churun Sircar (1873)
"And if a person should leave his mother, a half-brother by the mother, and an
imprecated son (of his father), the mother would take a third, ..."
5. An English-Greek Lexicon by Charles Duke Yonge (1849)
"... no pass., c. ace. of the thing imprecated, dat. of the person on whom, Horn.
.... imprecated, caused or invoked by imprecations (of a calamity), ..."
6. The Harmony of Divine Truth by Seth Williston (1836)
"Wherever, in the book of Psalms, certain destruction is imprecated on any particular
individuals or nation, we arc to under. stand it aз comprehending a ..."
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