About The Word Pray

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Pray

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What's The Definition Of Pray?
[v] call upon in supplication; entreat; "I beg you to stop!"
[v] address God; say a prayer Synonyms | Synonyms for Pray: beg | implore Related Terms | Find terms related to Pray: adjure | appeal | appeal to | apply to | ask | be good enough | beg | beseech | brace | call for help | call on | call upon | circulate a petition | clamor for | commune with God | conjure | crave | cry for | cry on | cry to | do | entreat | give thanks | have the goodness | I beg you | if you please | impetrate | implore | importune | imprecate | invoke | kneel to | make supplication | memorialize | obtest | offer a prayer | petition | plead | plead for | plead with | please | pray do | pray over | prefer a petition | prithee | recite the rosary | request | return thanks | run to | say grace | sign a petition | solicit | sue | supplicate | will you See Also | beg off | commune | crave | excuse | importune | insist | plead | supplicate Pray In Webster's Dictionary \Pray\, n. & v.
See {Pry}. [Obs.] --Spenser.
\Pray\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Prayed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Praying}.] [OE. preien, OF. preier, F. prier, L. precari, fr. prex, precis, a prayer, a request; akin to Skr. prach to ask, AS. frignan, fr[=i]nan, fricgan, G. fragen, Goth. fra['i]hnan. Cf. {Deprecate}, {Imprecate}, {Precarious}.] To make request with earnestness or zeal, as for something desired; to make entreaty or supplication; to offer prayer to a deity or divine being as a religious act; specifically, to address the Supreme Being with adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving. And to his goddess pitously he preyde. --Chaucer. When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. --Matt. vi. 6. {I pray}, or (by ellipsis) {Pray}, I beg; I request; I entreat you; -- used in asking a question, making a request, introducing a petition, etc.; as, Pray, allow me to go. I pray, sir. why am I beaten? --Shak. Syn: To entreat; supplicate; beg; implore; invoke; beseech; petition. \Pray\, v. t. 1. To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech. And as this earl was preyed, so did he. --Chaucer. We pray you . . . by ye reconciled to God. --2 Cor. v. 20. 2. To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for. I know not how to pray your patience. --Shak. 3. To effect or accomplish by praying; as, to pray a soul out of purgatory. --Milman. {To pray in aid}. (Law) (a) To call in as a helper one who has an interest in the cause. --Bacon. (b) A phrase often used to signify claiming the benefit of an argument. See under {Aid}. --Mozley & W. |
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