Usually means: Invoking curses or divine punishment.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word imprecatory:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. imprecatory: Merriam-Webster
  2. imprecatory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. imprecatory: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Imprecatory, imprecatory: Wordnik
  5. imprecatory: Wiktionary
  6. Imprecatory, imprecatory: Dictionary.com
  7. Imprecatory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. imprecatory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Imprecatory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. imprecatory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. imprecatory: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Imprecatory: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. imprecatory: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  That imprecates or invokes evil.

Similar:
imprecational, deprecatory, deprecative, impetratory, imploratory, impiteous, accursed, unpitous, objurgatory, obsecratory, more...

Opposite:
blessing, benedictory, complimentary, laudatory

Phrases:
imprecatory prayer, Imprecatory Psalms, more...

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Similar:
imprecational, deprecatory, deprecative, impetratory, imploratory, impiteous, accursed, unpitous, objurgatory, obsecratory, more...

Opposite:
blessing, benedictory, complimentary, laudatory

Phrases:
imprecatory prayer, Imprecatory Psalms, more...



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