Imprecate
IM-prih-kayt
To invoke evil on: curse
Imprecate ultimately derives from
the Latin verb precari, meaning "to pray, ask, or entreat." Precari
is also the ancestor of such English words as deprecate (which once meant
"to pray against an evil," though that sense is now archaic), precatory
("expressing a wish") and even pray itself (which has deeper roots in
the Latin noun for a request or entreaty, prex).