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Webster 1913 Edition
Orison
Or′i-son
,Noun.
A prayer; a supplication.
[Poetic]
Chaucer. Shak.
Lowly they bowed, adoring, and began
Their
Their
orisons
, each morning duly paid. Milton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Orison
OR'ISON
,Noun.
A prayer of supplication.
Lowly they bowed adoring, and began their orisons, each morning duly paid.
Definition 2024
orison
orison
English
Noun
orison (plural orisons)
- A prayer.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, act 3, scene 1, lines 88–89:
- The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
- Be all my sins remember’d.
- 1917, Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth
- Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
- Can patter out their hasty orisons.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, act 3, scene 1, lines 88–89: