OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 16174

pray

/pɹeɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
orar • rezar • rogar
To direct words, thoughts, or one's attention to a deity or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc.
Muslims pray in the direction of Mecca.
Pray to the small gods and hope that they may hear thee. Yet what mercy should the small gods have, who themselves made Death and Pain; or shall they restrain their old hound Time…
rogar
To humbly beg a person for aid or their time.