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olded in the gospel. Thou didst open the Kingdom of Heaven to all believers. Book of Com. Prayer.

To bow in prayer, or in token of submission. While each to his great Father bends. Coleridge.

A prayer; boon. [Archaic] What is good for a bootless bene Wordsworth.

Latin version of which begins with this word) which may be used in the order for morning prayer in the Church of England. It is taken from an apocryphal addition to the third chapter of Daniel.

A blessing; an expression of blessing, prayer, or kind wishes in favor of any person or thing; a solemn or affectionate invocation of happiness. So saying, he arose; whom Adam thus Followed with benediction. Milton. Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her. Longfellow. Specifically:…

Expressing wishes for good; as, a benedictory prayer. Thackeray.

beseeming the preachers. Clarendon. What form of speech or behavior beseemeth us, in our prayers to God Hocker.

9 To bid beads, to pray with beads, as the Roman Catholics; to distinguish each bead by a prayer. [Obs.] -- To bid defiance to , to defy openly; to brave. -- To bid fair, to offer a good prospect; to make fair promise; to seem likely.

To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons. Bless them which persecute you. Rom. xii. 14.

A prayer or petition. [Obs.] For which to God he made so many an idle boon. Spenser.

le; useless; without advantage or success. Chaucer. I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers. Shak. -- Boot"less*ly, adv. -- Boot"less*ness, n.

Aspiration; secret prayer. "Earnest desires and breathings after that blessed state." Tillotson.

A book containing the daily public or canonical prayers of the Roman Catholic or of the Greek Church for the seven canonical hours, namely, matins and lauds, the first, third, sixth, and ninth hours, vespers, and compline; -- distinguished from the missal.

That which is often repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer. I would sing my song without a burden. Shak.

stated times of the day, fixed by ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of prayer and devotion; also, certain portions of the Breviary, to be used at stated hours of the day. In England, this name is also given to the hours from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m. (formerly 8 a. m. to 12 m.) before and after which marria…

tury of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things. [Archaic.] And on it said a century of prayers. Shak.

An endowment or foundation for the chanting of masses and offering of prayers, commonly for the founder.

composition or art. That great model of chaste, lofty, and eloquence, the Book of Common Prayer. Macaulay.

To utter loudly or repeatedly; to shout. Clamored their piteous prayer incessantly. Longfellow. To clamor bells, to repeat the strokes quickly so as to produce a loud clang. Bp. Warbur

er of men, indicating the order or office; cloth. Men of his coat should be minding their prayers. Swift. She was sought by spirits of richest coat. Shak.