Pray

[preɪ] or [pre]

解释:

(verb.) address a deity, a prophet, a saint or an object of worship; say a prayer; 'pray to the Lord'.

克莱夫整理--From WordNet

解释:

(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.

桃瑞丝整理

同义词及近义词：

v. a. Ask (earnestly), request, entreat, beseech, supplicate, implore, beg, petition, invoke, conjure, ADJURE, call upon.

v. n. Supplicate, entreat, petition, beg, importune, prefer a petition or request.

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同义词及反义词：

SYN:Beg, beseech, entreat, implore, solicit, supplicate, adjure, invoke, crave,[See BESEECH]

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解释:

v.i. to ask earnestly: to entreat: to speak and make known one's desires to God.—v.t. to ask earnestly and reverently as in worship: to supplicate: to get by praying:—pr.p. prāy′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. prāyed.—ns. Pray′er the act of praying: entreaty: the words used: solemn giving of thanks and praise to God and a making known of our requests to Him: a form of prayer used in worship: a petition to a public body; Pray′er-book a book containing prayers or forms of devotion.—adj. Pray′erful full of or given to prayer: praying much or often: devotional.—adv. Pray′erfully.—n. Pray′erfulness.—adj. Pray′erless without or not using prayer.—adv. Pray′erlessly.—ns. Pray′erlessness; Pray′er-meet′ing a shorter and simpler form of public religious service in which laymen often take part; Pray′er-mong′er one who prays mechanically; Pray′er-rug a small carpet on which a Moslem kneels at prayer; Pray′ing the act of making a prayer: a prayer made.—adj. given to prayer.—ns. Pray′ing-machine′ -mill -wheel a revolving apparatus used for prayer in Tibet and elsewhere.

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