see pry.-to make request with earnestness or zeal, as for something desired; to make entreaty or supplication; to offer prayer to a deity or divine being as a religious act; specifically, to address the supreme being with adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving.-to address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech.-to ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.-to effect or accomplish by praying; as, to pray a soul out of purgatory.