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pray in aid

verb

Definitions

  1. To resort to the help (of)

    To resort to the help (of); to call on the support (of), especially to help prove an argument.

  2. To ask for the help of (someone or something) in pleading a case

    To ask for the help of (someone or something) in pleading a case; to make use of, adduce (something) in defence of a case, argument etc.

    • Other, smaller craters in the North Sea and Ukraine have been prayed in aid of this theory.

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