Orison

/ˈɒɹɪsən/ · noun

Meaning

A prayer..

Definitions by Sense

1. A prayer.
2. Mystical contemplation or communion.

Example Sentences

1917, Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons.

The faire Ophelia! Nymph, in thy Orizons / Be all my ſinnes remembred.

"I hope," said a voice by her side, "your absent brother will not engross all your orisons."

We shall see later that the absence of definite sensible images is positively insisted on by the mystical authorities in all religions as the sine qua non of a successful orison, or contemplation of the higher divine truths.

Only in certain occult and mystic states: in orison, contemplation, ecstasy and their allied conditions; does the self contrive to turn out the usual tenants, shut the "gateways of the flesh," and let those submerged powers which are capable of picking up messages from another plane of being have their turn.

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