pray

Definition of pray in English English dictionary: to talk to God for any reason; To humbly beg a person for aid or their time; please; used to make a polite request
Well, Major, pray tell us your adventures, for you have frightened us dreadfully.; To petition or solicit help from a supernatural or higher being; {v} to offer up prayers, entreat, beseech; {f} praise or appeal to God in words or thought; request, ask, make a petition, seek; to talk to God; to offer prayers of praise and thanksgiving to God; to ask for help from God All prayers are directed to God Prayers also are offered to God through the intercession of holy people the blesseds and the saints; 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; When people pray, they speak to God in order to give thanks or to ask for his help. He spent his time in prison praying and studying Now all we have to do is help ourselves and to pray to God. all those who work and pray for peace Kelly prayed that God would judge her with mercy; v To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy; entreat or call upon a higher power, as in: Many people pray before eating a meal; When someone is hoping very much that something will happen, you can say that they are praying that it will happen. I'm just praying that somebody in Congress will do something before it's too late Many were secretly praying for a compromise. = hope; call upon in supplication; entreat; "I beg you to stop!"; To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech; address God; say a prayer; To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for; To effect or accomplish by praying; as, to pray a soul out of purgatory; salat
pray in aid: To resort to the help (of); to call on the support (of), especially to help prove an argument
pray in aid: To ask for the help of (someone or something) in pleading a case; to make use of, adduce (something) in defence of a case, argument etc
Other, smaller craters in the North Sea and Ukraine have been prayed in aid of this theory.
pray tell: Expressing incredulity, please explain (some claim or position the speaker doubts)
But how, pray tell, do you notice something that happens when you're asleep?.
pray tell: Please explain (something the requestor does not yet understand)
Pray tell us, how will they fare while you are away?.
pray to the porcelain god: To vomit into a toilet
pray God's mercy: pray for the compassion of God
praying: Present participle of pray
I pray: I hope, I wish
To pray: bid
adverb pray 2: used when politely asking a question or telling someone to do something = please
prayed: past of pray
praying: {s} pertaining to prayer, pertaining to an appeal to God
praying: The act of saying a prayer
praying: from Pray, v
praying: Of or pertaining to prayer
prays: third-person singular of pray

pray

Turkish pronunciation

prey

Synonyms

adjure, appeal, ask, beseech, brace, commune with, crave, cry for, entreat, implore, importune, invocate, invoke, petition, recite

Antonyms

curse

Pronunciation

/ˈprā/ /ˈpreɪ/

Etymology

[ prA ] (verb.) 13th century. Middle English preien Old French preier, (French prier) Latin precari, from prex, precis, “a prayer, a request”; akin to Sanskrit prach “to ask”, Old English frignan, fricgan, German fragen, Dutch vragen. Confer deprecate, imprecate, precarious.