noun The act of obsecrating; entreaty; supplication.
noun In liturgics, one of the suffrages or versicles of the Litany beginning with the word by (or, in Latin, per); a petition of the Litany for deliverance from evil: as, “By thy baptism, fasting, and temptation,” the response being “Good Lord, deliver us.”
noun In rhetoric, a figure in which the orator implores the help of God or man.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun The act of obsecrating or imploring
noun (Rhet.) A figure of speech in which the orator implores the assistance of God or man.
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noun An earnest supplication made in the name of God
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Thine own sake, O my God_; [256] to this belongs _obsecration_ -- namely, an appeal to sacred things, as when we say: _By Thy Nativity, deliver us, O Lord_!
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 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 Lyoeus, and the vats staved in, and the dishonest wines poured forth among the sea.
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 Lyoeus, and the vats staved in, and the dishonest wines poured forth among the sea.
mutandis26 commented on the word obsecration
rogation, supplication, entreaty.
September 4, 2009