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imprecate (iou) and olfactory groove (medicine)


imprecate (iou)



imprecate verb. E17.
[Latin imprecat- pa. ppl stem of imprecari, formed as IM-1 + precari PRAY verb: see -ATE3.]
verb trans.
a. Invoke or call down (evil on a person etc.). E17.
Smollett She..imprecated a thousand curses upon his head.
b. Beg for; entreat (something good). rare. M17.
verb trans. Invoke evil on (a person); curse. Now rare or obsolete. E17.
W. Minto His co-religionists were imprecating him as the man who had brought this persecution upon them.
verb trans. Pray to, call on, (a god etc.). Long rare or obsolete. M17.
W. Prynne Which I shall dayly imprecate the God of Peace speedily to accomplish.
verb intrans. Pray; invoke evil. M-L17.

olfactory groove (medicine)


olfactory groove -->
olfactory sulcus


The sagittal sulcus on the inferior or orbital surface of each frontal lobe of the cerebrum, demarcating the straight gyrus from the orbital gyri, and covered on the orbital surface by the olfactory bulb and tract.

Synonym: sulcus olfactorius, olfactory groove.