LIT'ANY, noun [Gr. supplication, to pray.]
A solemn form of supplication, used in public worship.
Supplications for the appeasing of God's wrath, were by the Greek church termed litanies, by the Latin, rogations.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.