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pray in aid

pray in aid verb: to resort to the help (of); to call on the support (of), especially to help prove an argument.

Verb

pray in aid (third-person singular simple present prays in aid, present participle praying in aid, simple past and past participle prayed in aid)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To resort to the help (of); to call on the support (of), especially to help prove an argument.
  2. (transitive) To ask for the help of (someone or something) in pleading a case; to make use of, adduce (something) in defence of a case, argument etc.
    • Other, smaller craters in the North Sea and Ukraine have been prayed in aid of this theory.2009 October, The Economist, page 84

Forms of pray in aid

third-person singular presentprays in aid
present participlepraying in aid
past participleprayed in aid
pastprayed in aid

Questions about pray in aid

What does pray in aid mean?
Pray in aid means to resort to the help (of); to call on the support (of), especially to help prove an argument.
What part of speech is pray in aid?
Pray in aid is a verb.
What is the past tense of pray in aid?
The past tense of pray in aid is prayed in aid.

Words near pray in aid in the dictionary

  1. praxists
  2. Praxitelean
  3. Praxiteles
  4. pray
  5. pray away the gay
  6. pray in aid
  7. pray tell
  8. pray the gay away
  9. pray to the porcelain god
  10. pray to the porcelain goddess
  11. pray'd

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