Meaning Of Pray

n. & v.

See Pry.

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.

v. t.

To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech.

v. t.

To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.

v. t.

To effect or accomplish by praying; as, to pray a soul out of purgatory.