pray的意思|pray的解释-里氏词典

pray [prei]

vt. 祈祷, 恳求, 请

vi. 祈祷, 恳求, 请

pray

[ verb ]

address a deity, a prophet, a saint or an object of worship; say a prayer

<verb.communication>

pray to the Lord

call upon in supplication; entreat

<verb.communication>

beg

implore

I beg you to stop!

Pray \Pray\, n. & v.
See {Pry}. [Obs.] --Spenser.

Pray \Pray\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Prayed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Praying}.] [OE. preien, OF. preier, F. prier, L. precari,
fr. prex, precis, a prayer, a request; akin to Skr. prach to
ask, AS. frignan, fr[=i]nan, fricgan, G. fragen, Goth.
fra['i]hnan. Cf. {Deprecate}, {Imprecate}, {Precarious}.]
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.

And to his goddess pitously he preyde. --Chaucer.

When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou
hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in
secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall
reward thee openly. --Matt. vi. 6.

{I pray}, or (by ellipsis) {Pray}, I beg; I request; I
entreat you; -- used in asking a question, making a
request, introducing a petition, etc.; as, Pray, allow me
to go.

I pray, sir. why am I beaten? --Shak.

Syn: To entreat; supplicate; beg; implore; invoke; beseech;
petition.

Pray \Pray\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Prayed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Praying}.] [OE. preien, OF. preier, F. prier, L. precari,
fr. prex, precis, a prayer, a request; akin to Skr. prach to
ask, AS. frignan, fr[=i]nan, fricgan, G. fragen, Goth.
fra['i]hnan. Cf. {Deprecate}, {Imprecate}, {Precarious}.]
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.

And to his goddess pitously he preyde. --Chaucer.

When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou
hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in
secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall
reward thee openly. --Matt. vi. 6.

{I pray}, or (by ellipsis) {Pray}, I beg; I request; I
entreat you; -- used in asking a question, making a
request, introducing a petition, etc.; as, Pray, allow me
to go.

I pray, sir. why am I beaten? --Shak.

Syn: To entreat; supplicate; beg; implore; invoke; beseech;
petition.

Pray \Pray\, v. t.
1. To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat;
to implore; to beseech.

And as this earl was preyed, so did he. --Chaucer.

We pray you . . . by ye reconciled to God. --2 Cor.
v. 20.

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

I know not how to pray your patience. --Shak.

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

{To pray in aid}. (Law)
(a) To call in as a helper one who has an interest in the
cause. --Bacon.
(b) A phrase often used to signify claiming the benefit of
an argument. See under {Aid}. --Mozley & W.

Bentsen said one of the last things he did before heading to the hall on Wednesday night was to gather his wife and children in his hotel suite and pray.
Crowds would collect at times of comings and goings for government changes and over many years a man turned up every day to kneel in the street to pray for the prime minister.
"I hope it's all right, pray it's all right," Bush told reporters.
Some of the 200 Sikh extremists and sympathizers who surrendered during the siege confessed that nearly 40 people were tortured and killed by Sikh radicals and their bodies buried inside the complex. Some were people who had gone to the shrine to pray.
We pray every day we won't have a new war in the Middle East." However far-fetched President Hussein's fears may seem, the risk is that, either deliberately or inadvertently, Arab leaders could create a self-fulfilling prophecy.
"Welcome home, pray for the others," read a banner that greeted Polhill in Wiesbaden, a traditional stop for newly freed U.S. hostages before going home.
Korir then placed the lungs in Jane's mouth, on pretext that he was chasing away the demons." The pastor and his followers then left the girl and continued to pray for her nearby.
"We pray for you, God, to wipe out Botha and his government," said a man speaking on behalf of labor unionists who have been detained and banned by the government of President P.W. Botha.
As they gathered, three saffron-robed Cambodian Buddhist monks who had traveled from the United States, Canada and France filed into the palace to pray for success.
"I am afraid so, but I pray and hope we don't," Reuben said.
Your many friends and thousands of people in America work and pray every hour, every day for strength and freedom for you and all the hostages.
Members of the extremist Temple Mount Faithful and the ultra-nationalist Tehiya party demonstrated at the foot of the Temple Mount, demanding they be allowed to pray on the hilltop, which contains two Moslem mosques.
May we only pray that history repeats itself at the earliest opportunity." A writer to the Guardian asks, "When and in what circumstances could the Gulf war justifiably be named the Third World War?"
Most accounts of the battle mention the "providential arrival of the American soldiers," particularly because many of the inhabitants had gone to the village church to pray that they be spared from the German occupiers.
Ortega urged the evangelists, led by the Rev. Jorge Raschke of Puerto Rico, to pray that "the Contras are disarmed and there be peace in the country" after President-elect Violeta Barrios de Chamorro succeeds him on April 25.
He argued that calling off "the alcohol and drug program because of Del Lacefield is the rough equivalent of using Jim Bakker as a reason not to pray."
Police retaliated by saying people who might riot, mainly young Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and Gaza, would not be allowed to pray at Al Aqsa.
When asked whether he feared persecution if the U.S.-led multinational force in Saudi Arabia attacked in an effort to force Iraq out of Kuwait, he said: "We pray there is no war." "The people here do not trust us, but we are not bothered.
Before the storms, more than 75,000 people joined Ershad in a service at the national prayer ground in Dhaka to pray for rain.
"But at all our meetings we pray for them.
I pray to God that all of them are destroyed." Dissident sources have said that many of the victims of recent executions, including Moslem clergymen, were linked to Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri, Khomeini's designated successor.
The Bedouins of Jordan, hearing Holy War in the wind, pray to Allah that a modern clash of wills will not make their ancient desert life vanish in the sands.
She paused at each step to pray or to kiss the crucifix of her rosary after touching it to a spot where Christ's blood supposedly fell.
"This temporary restraining order does apply to me and as a constitutional officer I will not pray until I can get a new court order in place," Folmar said.
His initial response _ that he would pray _ was doubtless fervently echoed around the country.
I will pray that God's blessing be with you all." Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, an order of 3,000 nuns in 87 countries, in 1950.
"We pray to God to keep King Hussein safe and grant him strength and prosperity," the TV announcement said.
"They are feminists but they behaved appropriately," he said, adding they were welcome to pray at the wall in the future.
I just pray for them." Arnel and his relatives boarded the Dona Paz to go to Manila to visit his sister, Rose, whom he hadn't seen since childhood.
Mexico knows how to pray," he said. "It knows how to sing.

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