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発音

• IPA: /ˈɪmpɹəkeɪt/

動詞

imprecate (third-person singular simple present imprecates, present participle imprecating, simple past and past participle imprecated)

1. (transitive) To call down by prayer, as something hurtful or calamitous.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 119”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     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; [...]

派生語

関連する語

• imprecation
• imprecatory

Further reading

• “imprecate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “imprecate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “imprecate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.