'imprecation' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is defined as a spoken curse or a denunciation, often used in a religious context. An example of using 'imprecation' in a sentence could be: The priest's imprecation against the evil spirits sent shivers down the spines of the congregation.
But the F-word is a powerful imprecation that carries a wish for subjugation and even annihilation.
The imprecation on its home page, "don't touch the mouse!", gives one some immediate understanding that Xanadu isn't intended to be like just another webpage.Xanadu's singular genius, Ted Nelson, who turned 77 today, began work on it at a time when computers were scarce, expensive and capable only of simple tasks.
Imprecation and incantation become, in effect, "oral talismans" (charms).
I don't know which bit of Channel 4's imprecation to leave McCririck didn't understand.
Maybe all it takes is talc and the imprecation "Ven a mi".
Nor are we allowed to forget that Bergman was the child of a minister; together with his other films of the period, "Through a Glass Darkly" submits God (often absent, never nonexistent) to lament and imprecation and, sometimes, to a spitting rage.
It had claimed "several members of the public" were pressed around the Downing Street gate and "visibly shocked" by Mr Mitchell's imprecations.
The most notable, Einosuke Moriyama, served as the chief translator in Japan's negotiations with Perry, as well as interpreter to America's first consul to Japan, Townsend Harris.In the spring of 1849 the American warship Preble arrived in Nagasaki, its commander, James Glynn, ignoring the imprecations from assorted Japanese craft to "go away, go away".
His response to Edwards's imprecations that he make poverty a central part of his agenda was shallow, perfunctory, pat.
If the person next to you tells you to shut up, Wernicke's area (left-hand side) will process his imprecations.
In 1886 he published a new volume containing "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After," consisting mainly of imprecations against modern decadence and liberalism and a retraction of the earlier poem's belief in inevitable human progress.
