Reverse Dictionary: PRAY

ADJECTIVES
1200 ► prayerful → BEADFUL 1200 → obs.

NOUNS
885 ► a prayer → BEAD → obs.
885 ► prayers, devotions → BEADS → obs.
1000 ► prayer, petition, boon; prayer to God → BENE → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1200 ► a song of prayer → BEAD-SONG → obs.
1225 ► prayers, esp. on behalf of the departed → SUFFRAGIES → obs.
1297 ► the act of praying; prayer → BIDDING → obs.
1300 ► a place of prayer; a small chapel or shrine → ORATORY 
1300 ► a place of prayer; a small chapel or shrine; a room or building for private worship → ORATOUR → obs.
1375 ► a prayer, petition, or supplication to God; orison → ORATION → obs.
1387 ► the saying of prayers → BEADS BIDDING 
1500 ► a list of persons to be specially prayed for → BEAD-ROLL → obs. or arch.
1827 ► prayers and food → MASS AND MEAT → Sc.
L19  ► prayers → GYBS → sl.
1920 ► the prayer ‘Hail Mary’ → HAILER → Irish sl.

NOUNS, PERSON
1230 ► a man of prayer; one who prays for the soul or spiritual welfare of another → BEADMAN → BEADSMAN 
1425 ► a beadsman, one who prays for another; a person who resides in a bede-house, or is supported from the funds appropriated for this purpose (bede-house – an alms-house) → BEDE-MAN → obs.
1433 ► one who offers a prayer or petition; a petitioner or suppliant → ORATOR → obs.
1465 ► people who pray for a benefactor → BEAD-FOLK 
1465 ► a woman who prays for a benefactor, an almswoman → BEADS-WOMAN 
1499 ► a child that prays for the welfare of a benefactor or relative → BEAD-CHILD 
1868 ► a female who prays for another; more strictly, the female inmate of an alms-house → BEAD’-US-WIFE → Eng. dial.
1898 ► one who inhabited religious houses and alms-houses, and offered up prayers for the repose of the souls of the founders → BEAD-WIFE → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 ► one who inhabited religious houses and alms-houses, and offered up prayers for the repose of the souls of the founders → BEAD-WOMAN → Eng. dial. (Bk.)

VERBS
971 ► to pray → I-BID → obs.
1250 ► to offer a prayer → BID A BEAD 
1600 ► to pray; to plead → ORATE → obs.
1641 ► to say one’s prayers → TELL ONE’S BEADS 
L17  ► to hurry through prayers → CHOP UP THE WHINERS → sl.
1790 ► to pray → BEAD → Eng. dial. obs.
1792 ► to say one’s prayers → COUNT ONE’S BEADS 
1796 ► to pray → THROW THE MOUTH → Sc.
1898 ► to pray → BID → Eng. dial. (Bk.)