praxinoscope (praksinoskop)

[Irreg. IMG:content-0799.png:[blocks in formation] My father Is hard at study; pray now, rest yourself. Shak ., Tempest, iii. 1. 20. Pray, leave these frumps, sir, and receive this letter. Beau . and Fl ., Scornful Lady, v. 1. II. trans . 1. To ask earnestly; beg; entreat; supplicate; urge. Pacience apposed hym fyrste and preyed hym he sholde hem telle To Conscience, what crafte he couthe an to what countree he wolde. Piers Plowman (E), xiii. 222. Call to remembrance (I prai thee) the vaine youth full fantasie and ouertimelie death of fathers and thy brethHolinshed, Hist. Eng., an. 546. We pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. ren. 2 Cor. v. 20. You are pa ing welcome, And so I pray you all to think yourselves. Shak., T. of the S., ii. 1. 114. She pray'd me not to judge their cause from her That wrong'd it. Tennyson , Prince , vii. 2. In religious usage, to addre a desire or petition to (specifically to God) devoutly and with reverence. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter. John xiv. 16. There is hope Now, I pray God, amen! Shak ., Hen. VIII., ii. 3. 56. Cham . All will be well. Anne. She was ever praying the sweet heavens To save her dear lord whole from any wound. Tennyson , Geraint. πράσσειν, make, do: see practic.] 1. Use; practice; especially, practice or discipline for a specific purpose, as the acquisition of a specific art. An impious treatise of the elements and praxis of nec roC oven try, Philemon to Hydaspes, iii. mancy. There are few sciences more intrinsically valuable than mathematics.. They are the noblest praxis of logick, or universal reasoning. J. Harris , Hermes, Pref. 2. An example or a collection of examples for practice; a representative specimen; a model. A praxis or example of grammatical resolution. Bp . Lowth , Introd, to Eng. Gram. (ed. 1763), p. 185. The pleadings of the Ancients were praxises of the art of oratorical persuasion. Gillies , tr. of Aristotle, II. 348. 3. [ cap .] [NL.] In zool .: ( a ) A genus of lepidopterous insects of the family Noctuidæ , erected for two handsome Australian species. Gue née , 1852. (b) A genus of mollusks. Adams , 1858. Praxitelean (praks-it-e-lēʼan), a . [L. Praxi teles , Πραξιτέλης , Praxiteles (see def.), + -ean .] Of or pertaining to Praxiteles, of the fourth century B. c., one of the greatest of ancient Greek sculptors; executed by or characteristic of Praxiteles or his school. The art of Praxiteles was more luxurious than that of his predece ors; his types were sympathetic, abounding in pathos, and his expre ion of sentiment and character very subtly rendered. An original work by him has been recovered in the Hermes and infant Dionysus at Olympia (see cut under Greek ). See also cut under Aphrodite . I haue had no time to pray my houres, much le e to aunswere your leters mi iue. Guevara , Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 126. I'll pray a you sand prayers for thy death, No word to save thee. Shak ., M. for M., iii. 1. 146. 4. To make entreaty or petition for; crave; implore: as, the plaintiff prays judgment of the court. I know not how to pray your patience. Shak., Much Ado, v. 1. 250. He that will have the benefit of this act must pray a prohibition before a sentence in the ecclesiastical court. Ayliffe , Parergon. An addre was presented to the king, praying that Impey might be summoned home to answer for his misdeeds, Macaulay , Warren Hastings. 5. To effect, move, or bring by prayer or entreaty: followed by an adverb or a preposition particularizing the meaning. I pray you home to dinner with me. Shak., M. for M., ii. 1. 292. Occiduus is a pastor of renown; When he has pray'd and preach'd the Sabbath down , With wire and catgut he concludes the day. Cowper , Progre of Error, 1. 125. Praying souls out of purgatory, by ma es said on their behalf, became an ordinary office. Milman , Latin Christianity, xiv. 2. To pray in aid, in law , to call in, as aid, one who has an interest in the cause (see aid - prayer ); hence, to become an advocate for. You shall find A conqueror that will pray in aid for kindne , Where he for grace is kneel'd to. Shak ., A. and C., v. 2. 27. Without praying in aid of alchymists, there is a manifest image of this in the ordinary course of nature. Bacon , Friendship (ed. 1887). See prayer1 . prayl (prā), v . [ prayen , preyen , preien , praier , proier , preer , prier , F. prier = Pr. preyar , pregar = It. pregare , pray, precare , ask, beg, entreat, be- seech, pray, supplicate; cf. prex ( prec- ), usu- ally in pl pl. preces , a prayer, proc are , ask, de- Syn. 1. To crave, mand, proc us , a wooer; cf. Skt. prachh , ask: see fra in1 , and cf. postulate . Hence ult. (from L. precari ) E. prayer1 , precarious , precative , dep- recate, imprecate , etc.] I. in trans . 1. To ask earnestly; beg; entreat; supplicate, as for a personal grace or favor. prayer prayer1 (prar), n. [ He sought to have that by practice which he could not by prayer. Sir P. Sidney , Arcadia, ii. Thy threats have no more strength than her weak prayers. Shak., M. N. D., iii. 2. 250. 2. In religious usage, a devout petition to an object of worship, as God, or a saint or an angel; an orison: confined in Protestant usage to such petitions addre ed to God; more generally, any spiritual communion with God, including confe ion, petition, adoration, praise, and thanksgiving. See dulia. When thou comes to tho chirche dore, Take the haly water stond and on flore; Rede or synge or byd prayer is To crist, for alle thy crysten ferys. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 304. What is prayer but an ascent of the mind towards God? Bp . Atterbury , Sermons, II. xx. Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpre ed. J. Montgomery, Hymn. Thrice blest whose lives are faithful prayers . Tennyson , In Memoriam, xxxii. 3. The practice of praying, or of communing with God. He is famed for mildne , peace, and prayer . Shak., 3 Hen. VI., ii. 1. 156. It hath been well said of prayer , that prayer will either make a man leave off sinning, or sin will make him leave off prayer . PPaley , Sermons, i. So keep I fair thro' faith and prayer A virgin heart in work and will. Tennyson , Sir Galahad. 4. The form of words used in praying; a formula of worship: as, the Lord's Prayer . He. made those two excellent prayers, which were published after his death. Bp. Fell, Hammond, p. 212. Not a bell was rung, not a prayer was read. Tennyson, Maud, xxvii. 5. A form of religious service; a religious ob- servance, either public or pr private, consisting mainly of prayer to God; a liturgy: often in the plural: as, the service of morning prayer ; family prayers . She went from opera, park, a embly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a-day. Pope, To Mi Blount, ii. Prayers and calling-over seemed twice as short as usual. T. Hughes , Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 8. 6. That part of a memorial or petition to a public body, or of a bill of complaint in equity, which specifies the thing desired to be done or granted, as distinct from the recital of facts or reasons for the grant. - Apostleship of prayer. See apostleship . Book of Common Prayer, the book con- taining the appointed forms for public worship and for the words and acts used in the rites and ceremonies of the Church of England, or a similar book authorized by one of the other branches of the Anglican Church: briefly and popularly known as the Prayer - book . After the public a- tion in English of the Litany in 1544, and of the parts of the communion office relating to the communion of the people in 1548, the First Book of Common Prayer was i ued in 1549, the second year of Edward VI. Almost the whole book is taken from the medieval liturgical books, espe- cially the mi al, portiforium (breviary), and manual ac- implore, beseech, petition, importune. cording to the Use of Sarum (see use ), but with omi ions, The guilty rebel for remi ion prays . Shak ., Lucrece, 1. 714. Had you cried, or knelt, or pray'd to me, Tennyson, Geraint. I should not le have kill'd him. 2. In religious usage, to make devout petition to God, or (in some forms of religion) to any object of worship, as a saint or an angel; more generally, to enter into spiritual communion with God, usually through the medium of speech. See prayer1. It was moc he more comforte and gladne e to vs to have suche wether as we hadde longe desyred and prayde for. Sir R. Guylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 74. 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. Mat. vi. 6. An obsolete spelling of prey2 . A dialectal form of pry . [ praia , shore, beach, bank.] In some cities of India, an embanked road; a public walk or drive on a river-bank or water-front; a bund. A more practical scheme is the proposed building of the whole river front of the city, the reclamation of a considerable amount of frontage, and the construction of a broad pray a suitable for wheeled conveyances, and lighted by electricity. The Engineer, LXIX. 65. Praya2 (pra'a), n . [NL.] The typical genus of Prayida. prayantt (pra'ant), a . preier , pray: see prayl .] or attitude of prayer. [ Fanatick Errour and Levity would seem an Euchite as well as an Eristick, Prayant as well as predicant. Bp . Gauden , Tears of the Church, p. 93.