Pray

v. t.
  1. To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech.
  2. To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
  3. To effect or accomplish by praying; as, to pray a soul out of purgatory.
    4. To pray in aid
    1. To call in as a helper one who has an interest in the cause
    2. A phrase often used to signify claiming the benefit of an argument. See under Aid.