Word Meanings - PRAYER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who prays; a supplicant.
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- INSTANCE
1. The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion. Undertook at her instance to restore them. Sir W. Scott. 2. That which is instant or urgent; motive. The instances that second marriage - APPEALER
One who makes an appeal. - APPEAL
appellare to approach, address, invoke, summon, call, name; akin to appellere to drive to; ad + pellere to drive. See Pulse, and cf. To make application for the removal of from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review - ENTREATY
1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication; - PETITIONARILY
By way of begging the question; by an assumption. Sir T. Browne. - CRAVEN
Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless. "His craven heart." Shak. The poor craven bridegroom said never a word. Sir. W. Scott. In craven fear of the sarcasm of Dorset. Macualay. (more info) struck down, p. p. of cravanter, crevanter, to break, crush, - SUPPLICATION
A religious solemnity observed in consequence of some military success, and also, in times of distress and danger, to avert the anger of the gods. Syn. -- Entreaty; petition; solicitation; craving. (more info) 1. The act of supplicating; humble - PETITIONEE
A person cited to answer, or defend against, a petition. - PRAYERFUL
Given to prayer; praying much or often; devotional. "The prayerful man." J. S. Blackie. -- Prayer"ful*ly, adv. -- Prayer"ful*ness, n. - APPEALABLE
1. Capable of being appealed against; that may be removed to a higher tribunal for decision; as, the cause is appealable. 2. That may be accused or called to answer by appeal; as, a criminal is appealable for manslaughter. - PETITION
1. A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty; especially, a request of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer to the Supreme Being, or to a person of superior power, rank, or authority; also, a single clause in such a prayer. A house of - CRAVATTED
Wearing a cravat. The young men faultlessly appointed, handsomely cravatted. Thackeray. - APPEALING
That appeals; imploring. -- Ap*peal"*ing*ly, adv. -- Ap*peal"ing*ness, n. - CRAVER
One who craves or begs. - PETITIONARY
1. Supplicatory; making a petition. Pardon Rome, and any petitionary countrymen. Shak. 2. Containing a petition; of the nature of a petition; as, a petitionary epistle. Swift. - PETITIONING
The act of presenting apetition; a supplication. - CRAVE
Etym: 1. To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore. I crave your honor's pardon. Shak. Joseph . . . went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. Mark xv. - APPLICATION
1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the - REQUEST
LL. requesta, for requisita, fr. L. requirere, requisitum, to seek 1. The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty. I will marry her, sir, at your request. Shak. 2. That which - PETITIONER
One who presents a petition. - REAPPLICATION
The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied. - BIDDING PRAYER
The prayer for the souls of benefactors, said before the sermon. - REPETITIONAL; REPETITIONARY
Of the nature of, or containing, repetition. - REPETITIONER
One who repeats. - REPETITION
The act of repeating, singing, (more info) 1. The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration. I need not be barren of accusations; he hath faults, with surplus to tire in repetition. Shak. 2. Recital from memory; rehearsal.