imprecation

imprecation
    n 1: the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and
         usually serves as an insult); "he suffered the imprecations
         of the mob" [syn: {imprecation}, {malediction}]
    2: a slanderous accusation
    

Imprecation \Im`pre*ca"tion\, n. [L. imprecatio: cf. F.
   impr['e]cation.]
   The act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon any one; a
   prayer that a curse or calamity may fall on any one; a curse.
   [1913 Webster]

         Men cowered like slaves before such horrid
         imprecations.                            --Motley.

   Syn: Malediction; curse; execration; anathema. See
        {Malediction}.
        [1913 Webster]
    

44 Moby Thesaurus words for "imprecation":
      adjuration, anathema, appeal, application, ban, beseechment, bid,
      blasphemy, call, clamor, commination, cry, curse, cursing, cussing,
      damnation, denunciation, entreaty, evil eye, excommunication,
      execration, fulmination, hex, imploration, imploring, invocation,
      invocatory plea, malediction, malison, malocchio, obsecration,
      obtestation, orison, petition, plea, prayer, profanity,
      proscription, rogation, suit, supplication, swearing, thundering,
      whammy