Definition of "oraison" [or•ai•son]

• Obsolete form of orison. (noun)

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• "(As, for example, Bossuet in 1669 in his oraison funebre over Henriette Marie, wife of Charles I)."
• "Well, and that’s enough, I think, by way of a decorous oraison funèbre for the most tender wife of a most tender husband."
• "This apostolate she is to exercise not in preaching the Gospel, but in spreading the mystical life, the theory of which she presents in the "Moyen court et facile de faire oraison""