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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Tonsure :: Tonsure (n.) The first ceremony used for devoting a person to the service of God and the church; the first degree of the clericate, given by a bishop, abbot, or cardinal priest, consisting in cutting off the hair from a circular space at the back of the head, with prayers and benedictions; hence, entrance or admission into minor orders..
Portass :: Portass (n.) A breviary; a prayer book.
Spray :: Spray (v. t.) Water flying in small drops or particles, as by the force of wind, or the dashing of waves, or from a waterfall, and the like..
Request :: Request (n.) The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.
Hour :: Hour (n.) Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers..
Precant :: Precant (n.) One who prays.
Spray :: Spray (v. t.) To let fall in the form of spray.
Spray :: Srawls (n. pl.) Small branches of a tree; twigs; sprays.
Swiss :: Swish (n.) Light driven spray.
Grant :: Grant (v. t.) To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give..
Deprecate :: Deprecate (v. t.) To pray against, as an evil; to seek to avert by prayer; to desire the removal of; to seek deliverance from; to express deep regret for; to disapprove of strongly..
Postcomminion :: Postcomminion (n.) A prayer or prayers which the priest says at Mass, after the ablutions..
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..
Leve :: Leve (v. t.) To grant; -- used esp. in exclamations or prayers followed by a dependent clause.
Prayer :: Prayer (v. i.) The act of praying, or of asking a favor; earnest request or entreaty; hence, a petition or memorial addressed to a court or a legislative body..
Abdest :: Abdest (n.) Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite.
Spray :: Spray (n.) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
Neuvaines :: Neuvaines (n. pl.) Prayers offered up for nine successive days.
Supplicate :: Supplicate (v. t.) To address in prayer; to entreat as a supplicant; as, to supplicate the Deity..
Tersanctus :: Tersanctus (n.) An ancient ascription of praise (containing the word Holy -- in its Latin form, Sanctus -- thrice repeated), used in the Mass of the Roman Catholic Church and before the prayer of consecration in the communion service of the Church of England and the Protestant Episcopal Church. Cf. Trisagion..
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