Chapter Practically to Prefiguration of P by Soule's Synonymes

2. Commune with God, address the Supreme Being, supplicate our Maker, seek the throne of grace, approach the mercy-seat.

Prayer, n.

1. Supplication, entreaty, solicitation, imploration, beseeching, suit, petition, request.

2. Communion with God, invocation of God, supplication of God, devotion (s), invocation, orison, litany, suffrage (eccles.), adoration.

Prayerful, a. Given to prayer, of much converse with God, devout, devotional, religious, pious, lowly- minded, reverent.

Praying-machine, n.

1. Praying-mill, praying-wheel.

2. Formalist, maker of vain repetitions, suppliant with the lips.

Preach, v. a.

1. Proclaim (as in a religious discourse), declare, publish, pronounce, deliver.

2. Inculcate, teach, urge, press urgently.

Preach, v. n.

1. Deliver sermons, discourse on religious subjects.

2. Prate sanctimoniously, exhort over-righteously, moralize ex cathedra.

Preaching friar. Blackfriar, Dominican, Jacobin, predicant, preaching brother, frère prêcheur.

Preach up. Commend urgently, talk up, urge by exhortation, unduly extol.

Preamble, n. Introduction (especially of a legislative act), prelude, preface, introductory part.

Precarious, a. Uncertain, unsettled, unsteady, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, insecure, not to be depended upon, unreliable, hazardous, perilous, risky, riskful, unassured.

Precatory, a. Suppliant, beseeching, supplicating, imploring, praying, begging, entreating, of supplication, prayer, or entreaty.

Precaution, n.

1. Forethought, foresight, timely care, prudence, providence, circumspection, wariness, care.