Shak.
Syn. -- To entreat; supplicate; beg; implore; invoke; beseech;
petition.
Pray, v. t. 1. To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to
entreat; to implore; to beseech.
And as this earl was preyed, so did he.
Chaucer.
We pray you . . . by ye reconciled to God.