Definition of pray

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Pray (v. t.) To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech.

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Pray :: Pray (n. & v.) See Pry.
Spray :: Spray (v. t.) A jet of fine medicated vapor, used either as an application to a diseased part or to charge the air of a room with a disinfectant or a deodorizer..
Subscription :: Subscription (n.) The acceptance of articles, or other tests tending to promote uniformity; esp. (Ch. of Eng.), formal assent to the Thirty-nine Articles and the Book of Common Prayer, required before ordination..
Sprig :: Sprig (n.) A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray; as, a sprig of laurel or of parsley..
Prayerful :: Prayerful (a.) Given to prayer; praying much or often; devotional.
Petition :: Petition (v. t.) To make a prayer or request to; to ask from; to solicit; to entreat; especially, to make a formal written supplication, or application to, as to any branch of the government; as, to petition the court; to petition the governor..
Spray :: Spray (n.) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
Private :: Private (a.) Sequestered from company or observation; appropriated to an individual; secret; secluded; lonely; solitary; as, a private room or apartment; private prayer..
Displayed :: Displayed (a.) With wings expanded; -- said of a bird of pray, esp. an eagle..
Vocal :: Vocal (a.) Uttered or modulated by the voice; oral; as, vocal melody; vocal prayer..
Entreat :: Entreat (v. t.) To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune..
Orator :: Orator (n.) In equity proceedings, one who prays for relief; a petitioner..
Hour :: Hour (n.) Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers..
Efficacy :: Efficacy (n.) Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer..
Atomize :: Atomize (v. t.) To reduce to atoms, or to fine spray..
Mantis :: Mantis (n.) Any one of numerous species of voracious orthopterous insects of the genus Mantis, and allied genera. They are remarkable for their slender grotesque forms, and for holding their stout anterior legs in a manner suggesting hands folded in prayer. The common American species is M. Carolina..
Breathing :: Breathing (n.) Aspiration; secret prayer.
Prayingly :: Prayingly (adv.) With supplication to God.
Agnus Dei :: Agnus Dei () A triple prayer in the sacrifice of the Mass, beginning with the words Agnus Dei..
Common :: Common (v.) Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer..
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