Definition of pray

• 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.