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Portal :: Portal (n.) A prayer book or breviary; a portass.

Reject :: Reject (v. t.) To refuse to grant; as, to reject a prayer or request..

Beadroll :: Beadroll (n.) A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general..

Outpray :: Outpray (v. t.) To exceed or excel in prayer.

Leve :: Leve (v. t.) To grant; -- used esp. in exclamations or prayers followed by a dependent clause.

Intercession :: Intercession (n.) The act of interceding; mediation; interposition between parties at variance, with a view to reconcilation; prayer, petition, or entreaty in favor of, or (less often) against, another or others..

Liturgical :: Liturgical () Pertaining to, of or the nature of, a liturgy; of or pertaining to public prayer and worship..

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..

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..

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..

Confiteor :: Confiteor (n.) A form of prayer in which public confession of sins is made.

Grant :: Grant (v. t.) To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give..

Burden :: Burden (n.) The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer..

Bless :: Bless (v. t.) To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons.

Breathing :: Breathing (n.) Aspiration; secret prayer.

Praise :: Praise (v.) Especially, the joyful tribute of gratitude or homage rendered to the Divine Being; the act of glorifying or extolling the Creator; worship, particularly worship by song, distinction from prayer and other acts of worship; as, a service of praise..

Liturgy :: Liturgy (a.) An established formula for public worship, or the entire ritual for public worship in a church which uses prescribed forms; a formulary for public prayer or devotion. In the Roman Catholic Church it includes all forms and services in any language, in any part of the world, for the celebration of Mass..

Postcomminion :: Postcomminion (n.) A prayer or prayers which the priest says at Mass, after the ablutions..

Set :: Set (a.) Established; prescribed; as, set forms of prayer..

Ejaculatory :: Ejaculatory (a.) Suddenly darted out; uttered in short sentences; as, an ejaculatory prayer or petition..

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