pray

1. n. & v. See Pry. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

3. v. t. To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech. Source: opted

4. v. t. To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for. Source: opted

5. v. t. To effect or accomplish by praying; as, to pray a soul out of purgatory. Source: opted

6. v. address a deity, a prophet, a saint or an object of worship; say a prayer Source: wordnet

7. v. call upon in supplication; entreat Source: wordnet

8. v:100 v. address a deity, a prophet, a saint or an object of worship; say a prayer Source: ecdict

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