"pray in aid" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "prays in aid",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "praying in aid",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prayed in aid",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prayed in aid",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pray in aid (third-person singular simple present prays in aid, present participle praying in aid, simple past and past participle prayed in aid)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "49 51",
      "word": "prayee"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "59 41",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To resort to the help (of); to call on the support (of), especially to help prove an argument."
      ],
      "id": "en-pray_in_aid-en-verb-MCHP4NI6",
      "links": [
        [
          "call on",
          "call on"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, now rare) To resort to the help (of); to call on the support (of), especially to help prove an argument."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Law",
          "orig": "en:Law",
          "parents": [
            "Justice",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009 October, The Economist, page 84",
          "text": "Other, smaller craters in the North Sea and Ukraine have been prayed in aid of this theory.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "id": "en-pray_in_aid-en-verb-SckNRlqN",
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
        ],
        [
          "make use",
          "make use"
        ],
        [
          "adduce",
          "adduce"
        ],
        [
          "defence",
          "defence"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, chiefly law) 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."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pray in aid"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "prays in aid",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "praying in aid",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prayed in aid",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prayed in aid",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pray in aid (third-person singular simple present prays in aid, present participle praying in aid, simple past and past participle prayed in aid)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "prayee"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To resort to the help (of); to call on the support (of), especially to help prove an argument."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "call on",
          "call on"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, now rare) To resort to the help (of); to call on the support (of), especially to help prove an argument."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "en:Law"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009 October, The Economist, page 84",
          "text": "Other, smaller craters in the North Sea and Ukraine have been prayed in aid of this theory.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
        ],
        [
          "make use",
          "make use"
        ],
        [
          "adduce",
          "adduce"
        ],
        [
          "defence",
          "defence"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, chiefly law) 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."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pray in aid"
}