obsecration

And in the place of these imperial elixirs, beautiful to every sense, gem-hued, flower-scented, dream-compellers:—behold upon the quays at Cette the chemicals arrayed; behold the analyst at Marseilles, raising hands in obsecration, attesting god Ly�us, and the vats staved in, and the dishonest wines poured forth among the sea.

Many expletives are ancient religious formulas of objurgation, obsecration, asseveration, anathema, etc.

But it is sufficient to remark that obsecration is not a swearing by, or adjuring of God, as though to compel Him, for this is forbidden, but to implore His mercy.

And obsecration precedes prayer, for it is from dwelling upon the Divine Goodness that we venture to approach to Him.

See talk. prate, n. chatter, gabble, babble, twaddle. pray, v. invoke, supplicate, entreat, implore, beg, petition, intercede. pray against. deprecate. prayer, n. invocation, orison, collect, suffrage, supplication, obsecration; litany, rogation, rosary, euchologion, secreta; entreaty, intercession. preach, v. exhort. preacher, n. homilist, exhorter, predicant, pulpiteer; missionary, evangelist, revivalist. preaching, n. sermon, homily, exhortation.