| Pray 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. Thesaurus Entries I beg you, adjure, appeal, appeal to, apply to, ask, be good enough, beg, beseech, brace, call for help, call on, call upon, circulate a petition, clamor for, commune with God, conjure, crave, cry for, cry on, cry to, do, entreat, give thanks, have the goodness, if you please, impetrate, implore, importune, imprecate, invoke, kneel to, make supplication, memorialize, obtest, offer a prayer, petition, plead, plead for, plead with, please, pray do, pray over, prefer a petition, prithee, recite the rosary, request, return thanks, run to, say grace, sign a petition, solicit, sue, supplicate, will you |