Orison
//ˈɒɹɪsən// noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A prayer.
"The faire Ophelia! Nymph, in thy Orizons / Be all my ſinnes remembred."
- 2 reverent petition to a deity wordnet
- 3 Mystical contemplation or communion.
"We shall see later that the absence of definite sensible images is positively insisted on by the mystical authorities in all religions as the sine qua non of a successful orison, or contemplation of the higher divine truths."
Example
More examples"The faire Ophelia! Nymph, in thy Orizons / Be all my ſinnes remembred."
Etymology
From Middle English orisoun, from Anglo-Norman oreison, oresoun etc. and Old French oraisun etc., from Latin ōrātiō, ōrātiōnem (“discourse, prayer”) (whence also English oration).
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