Thesaurus: pray

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1. n. & v. See Pry.
2. 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.
3. v. t. To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech.
4. v. t. To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
5. v. t. To effect or accomplish by praying; as, to pray a soul out of purgatory.
6. v. address a deity, a prophet, a saint or an object of worship; say a prayer
7. v. call upon in supplication; entreat
8. v:100 v. address a deity, a prophet, a saint or an object of worship; say a prayer