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prettygoodwordorison (OR-uh-zuhn) - n., a prayer.
And not, as I sometimes think, a fanfare. Used since at least the mid-12th century, borrowed from Old French oreison, from medieval Latin ōrātiō, an oration but also prayer as in an appeal to God, from Latin ōrāre, to speak. So at its root, something spoken -- fitting.
---L.
And not, as I sometimes think, a fanfare. Used since at least the mid-12th century, borrowed from Old French oreison, from medieval Latin ōrātiō, an oration but also prayer as in an appeal to God, from Latin ōrāre, to speak. So at its root, something spoken -- fitting.
---L.
