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Webster 1913 Edition
Praying
Pray′ing
,Praying insect
, Praying locust
, or
Praying mantis
(Zool.)
, a mantis, especially
– Mantis religiosa
. See Mantis
. Praying machine
, or Praying wheel
a wheel on which prayers are pasted by Buddhist priests, who then put the wheel in rapid revolution. Each turn in supposed to have the efficacy of an oral repetition of all the prayers on the wheel. Sometimes it is moved by a stream.
Webster 1828 Edition
Praying
PRA'YING
,ppr.
Definition 2024
praying
praying
English
Adjective
praying (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to praying.
- She divided her praying time between the chapel and her cell, and spent her non-praying time mending garments.
- In which people may or do pray.
- 2005, Eli N Evans, The provincials: a personal history of Jews in the South:
- We could have praying buses and nonpraying buses.
- 2005, Eli N Evans, The provincials: a personal history of Jews in the South:
Noun
praying (plural prayings)
- An act of saying a prayer.
- John Walford
- However, after breakfast the prayings did not stop for the preachings, — each went on with force; people came flocking in; we had Wesleyans in abundance.
- John Walford
Verb
praying
- present participle of pray