To make request with earnestness or zeal, as for something desired; to make entreaty or supplication; to offer prayer to a deity or divine being as a religious act; specifically, to address the Supreme Being with adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving.

To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech.

To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.

address God; say a prayer

call upon in supplication; entreat; "I beg you to stop!"