prayer chain
noun
A series of people each of whom receives a written prayer with an invitation to pass it or copies of it to others, so that the prayer may be offered repeatedly.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Daily Republican (Decatur, Illinois).
- primeness
- prime number
- primer
- prime rate
- prime ratio
- prime rib
- primero
- primer school
- primer seisin
- prime-sign
- primestaff
- prime suspect
- prime the pump
- prime time
- prime tone
- primeur
- primeval
- primeval forest
- primevalism
- primevally
- primevalness
- primeval soup
- prime vertical
- prime vertical instrument
- prime vertical transit