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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

pray in aid en · VERB

Meanings

  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

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
prays in aid Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
praying in aid Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
prayed in aid Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
prayed in aid Tense=Past lexicographic

Relateds

prayee