Definition of pray

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Pray (v. t.) To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.

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Dashboard :: Dashboard (n.) A screen at the bow af a steam launch to keep off the spray; -- called also sprayboard.
Ospray :: Ospray (n.) The fishhawk.
Unprayed :: Unprayed (a.) Not prayed for.
Portass :: Portass (n.) A breviary; a prayer book.
Benediction :: Benediction (n.) A blessing; an expression of blessing, prayer, or kind wishes in favor of any person or thing; a solemn or affectionate invocation of happiness..
Bead :: Bead (n.) A little perforated ball, to be strung on a thread, and worn for ornament; or used in a rosary for counting prayers, as by Roman Catholics and Mohammedans, whence the phrases to tell beads, to at one's beads, to bid beads, etc., meaning, to be at prayer..
Unbidden :: Unbidden (a.) Being without a prayer.
Matin :: Matin (n.) Morning worship or service; morning prayers or songs.
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..
Bless :: Bless (v. t.) To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons.
Praying :: Praying () a. & n. from Pray, v..
Complin :: Complin (n.) The last division of the Roman Catholic breviary; the seventh and last of the canonical hours of the Western church; the last prayer of the day, to be said after sunset..
Spray :: Spray (v. t.) To let fall in the form of spray.
Bedesman :: Bedesman (n.) A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman..
Benedictory :: Benedictory (a.) Expressing wishes for good; as, a benedictory prayer..
Unpray :: Unpray (v. t.) To revoke or annul by prayer, as something previously prayed for..
Enclitic :: Enclitic (n.) A word which is joined to another so closely as to lose its proper accent, as the pronoun thee in prithee (pray thee)..
Orison :: Orison (n.) A prayer; a supplication.
Paternoster :: Paternoster (n.) The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version..
Supplication :: Supplication (n.) The act of supplicating; humble and earnest prayer, as in worship..
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