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ˈprayable, a.
[a. OF. *prei-, pre-, proi-, priable, f. preier to pray: see -able.]
†a. That may be prayed to or entreated. Obs.
a1340Hampole Psalter lxxxix. 15 [xc. 13] Turne lord hou lange: and prayabill be abouen þi seruanits. 1382Wyclif Ibid., Preyable be thou vp on thi seruauns [1388 able to be preied, Vulg. deprecabilis]. 1548Gest Pr. Masse in H. G. Dugdale Life (1840) App. i. 116 He is then there..no lesse honourable and prayable then in heaven.
b. Of a prayer: that may be made.
1941T. S. Eliot Dry Salvages ii. 10 The hardly, barely prayable Prayer of the one Annunciation. |