Bidding prayer
- The prayer before the sermon, with petitions for various specified classes of persons.
- The prayer for the souls of benefactors, said before the sermon.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.