precare

Based on the Latin precare, "to pray," the noun imprecation - along with its synonym execration, which shares a root with "sacred" and has nothing to do with excrement - are curses, usually married to the verb "mutter," calling down punishment from on high.

pshares blog 2009

At tu precare, rurfus ut mi copia pFiat tm, quo maximum ignem comprimam:,

Analysis operum S.S. patrum et scriptorum ecclesiasticorum 1790

_CM_ desunt docti nec _HI_ quae quoniam nec nos unda summouit ab illa ungula Gorgonei quam caua fecit equi, 80 prosit opemque ferat communia sacra tueri atque isdem studiis imposuisse manum, litora pellitis nimium subiecta Corallis ut tandem saeuos effugiamque Getas, clausaque si misero patria est, ut ponar in ullo 85 qui minus Ausonia distet ab urbe loco, unde tuas possim laudes celebrare recentes magnaque quam minima facta referre mora. tangat ut hoc uotum caelestia, care Suilli, numina, pro socero paene precare tuo.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

surge et praesentis iusta precare deos. ac primum pura somnum tibi discute lympha,

Cynthia's Birthday 1912