Definition of prayer

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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..

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Portal :: Portal (n.) A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
Outpray :: Outpray (v. t.) To exceed or excel in prayer.
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..
Confiteor :: Confiteor (n.) A form of prayer in which public confession of sins is made.
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..
Breathing :: Breathing (n.) Aspiration; secret prayer.
Plea :: Plea (n.) An urgent prayer or entreaty.
Unbidden :: Unbidden (a.) Being without a prayer.
Contemplative :: Contemplative (n.) A religious or either sex devoted to prayer and meditation, rather than to active works of charity..
Dominical :: Dominical (a.) Relating to, or given by, our Lord; as, the dominical (or Lord's) prayer..
Priedieu :: Priedieu (n.) A kneeling desk for prayers.
Intercessory :: Intercessory (a.) Pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by, intercession; interceding; as, intercessory prayer..
Reader :: Reader (n.) One whose distinctive office is to read prayers in a church.
Paternoster :: Paternoster (n.) The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version..
Invocation :: Invocation (n.) The act or form of calling for the assistance or presence of some superior being; earnest and solemn entreaty; esp., prayer offered to a divine being..
Muezzin :: Muezzin (n.) A Mohammedan crier of the hour of prayer.
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..
Reject :: Reject (v. t.) To refuse to grant; as, to reject a prayer or request..
Breviary :: Breviary (n.) A book containing the daily public or canonical prayers of the Roman Catholic or of the Greek Church for the seven canonical hours, namely, matins and lauds, the first, third, sixth, and ninth hours, vespers, and compline; -- distinguished from the missal..
Bless :: Bless (v. t.) To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons.
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