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A.Word.A.Day--imprecate Wish to share your love of words? Send a gift subscription of A.Word.A.Day. Pronunciation: WAV or RealAudio imprecate (IM-pri-kayt) verb tr. To invoke evil upon; curse. [Latin imprecari, imprecat- : in-, towards + precari, to pray, ask.] "Bear witness, gods, you heard him bid me go; You, whom he mocked with imprecating vows Of promised faith! - I'll die; I will not bear it." Dryden, John, All For Love: Part I, Great Works of Literature, 1 Jan 1992. This week's theme: verbs. X-Bonus Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. -Aldous Huxley

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