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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[OF.

orison

oreson

oreison

, F.

oraison

, fr. L.

oratio

speech, prayer. See

A prayer; a supplication.

[Poetic]

Chaucer. Shak.

Lowly they bowed, adoring, and began
Their

orisons

, each morning duly paid.

Milton.

Noun.

[L. oratio, from, oro.]

A prayer of supplication.

Lowly they bowed adoring, and began their orisons, each morning duly paid.