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An imprecation is a harsh word or phrase you throw out when you are very angry — the kind that swears, or that wishes someone ill. In older, English it is a curse: you “call down” harm on a person or a thing. A ’s dictionary puts it near “offensive word,” but it is not the everyday word children shout in the yard. It is the literary name for that angry outburst, especially a curse. You will meet it in novels, history, and formal writing, almost never in the school corridor. People say he swore or she cursed. Though actually, not every rude word is an imprecation. A dirty joke is not; a “damn you” in a storm of anger is.
咒罵；詛咒（較文言，不是泛稱的髒話）
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
imprecationnoun/ˌɪm.pɹɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
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The act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone; a prayer that a curse or calamity may befall someone.
- Hear then this dreadful imprecation; hear it: / 'Tis lay'd on all; not any one exempt: […]
- Her son turned to look at her as she reeled and swayed in the middle of the room, her fierce face convulsed with passion, her blotched arms raised high in imprecation. "May Gawd curse her forever," she shrieked.
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A curse.
- Mr. Gamfield growled a fierce imprecation on the donkey generally, but more particularly on his eyes; and, running after him, bestowed a blow on his head.
- He drank the spirits and impatiently bade us go; terminating his command with a sequel of horrid imprecations too bad to repeat or remember.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。