Definition of pray Pray
/pɹejˈ/ - [prey] - pray
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| pray - address a deity, a prophet, a saint or an object of worship; say a prayer; "pray to the Lord" | ||
| commune communicate intimately with; be in a state of heightened, intimate receptivity; "He seemed to commune with nature" | ||
| pray - call upon in supplication; entreat; "I beg you to stop!" | ||
| beg, implore | ||
| plead appeal or request earnestly; "I pleaded with him to stop" | ||
| beg off, excuse excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with; "excuse someone's behavior"; "She condoned her husband's occasional infidelities" | ||
| crave plead or ask for earnestly | ||
| supplicate ask humbly (for something); "He supplicated the King for clemency" | ||
| importune, insist beg persistently and urgently; "I importune you to help them" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- pray (n. & v.)
See Pry. - pray (v. i.)
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. - pray (v. t.)
To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech. - pray (v. t.)
To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for. - pray (v. t.)
To effect or accomplish by praying; as, to pray a soul out of purgatory.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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To make a request in a humble manner; to call upon in supplication. -
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To address God or a higher being with praise, thanksgiving, confession or supplication.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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prā, v.i. to ask earnestly: to entreat: to speak and make known one's desires to God.—v.t. to ask earnestly and reverently, as in worship: to supplicate: to get by praying:—pr.p. prāy′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. prāyed.—ns. Pray′er, the act of praying: entreaty: the words used: solemn giving of thanks and praise to God, and a making known of our requests to Him: a form of prayer used in worship: a petition to a public body; Pray′er-book, a book containing prayers or forms of devotion.—adj. Pray′erful, full of, or given to, prayer: praying much or often: devotional.—adv. Pray′erfully.—n. Pray′erfulness.—adj. Pray′erless, without or not using prayer.—adv. Pray′erlessly.—ns. Pray′erlessness; Pray′er-meet′ing, a shorter and simpler form of public religious service, in which laymen often take part; Pray′er-mong′er, one who prays mechanically; Pray′er-rug, a small carpet on which a Moslem kneels at prayer; Pray′ing, the act of making a prayer: a prayer made.—adj. given to prayer.—ns. Pray′ing-machine′, -mill, -wheel, a revolving apparatus used for prayer in Tibet and elsewhere. [O. Fr. preier (Fr. prier)—L. precāri—prex, precis, a prayer.]
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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She prays with her knees upwards; said of a woman much given to gallantry and intrigue. At her last prayers; saying of an old maid.
Proverbs DictionaryProverbs Dictionary 📗
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He that would learn to pray let him go to sea.
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🔤- pray, verb, present, 1st person singular of pray (infinitive).
- pray, verb (infinitive).
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