orison

noun

Etymology: From Middle English orisoun, from Anglo-Norman oreison, oresoun etc. and Old French oraisun etc., from Latin ōrātiō, ōrātiōnem (“discourse, prayer”) (whence also English oration).

1. A prayer.

   “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."”

2. Mystical contemplation or communion.

   “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.”