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daven, v.
Brit. |ˈdʌv(ə)n|, U.S. |ˈdɑvən|
Forms: 19– davan, 19– daven, 19– davven, 19– doven
[‹ Yiddish daven to pray, especially to say the regular daily prayers. Compare davening n.]
1. Judaism.
a. trans. To recite (a prayer or set of prayers).
Such recitation is freq. accompanied by swaying, bending, or rocking to and fro.
1947B. M. Casper With Jewish Brigade vi. 66 In the midst of it all, they said to me: ‘Let us ‘davven’ Minchah’. 1980Jewish Chron. 23 May 18/2 A voice said: ‘Have you davened maariv yet?’ ‘No,’ I replied. ‘Will you make up a minyan?’ 2003Baltimore Jewish Times (Nexis) 21 Nov. 27550 We daven minchah at Auschwitz.
b. intr. To pray or recite in this manner.
1953R. Métraux tr. in M. Mead & R. Métraux Study of Culture at Distance (1962) iv. 204 They were not illiterate, because no matter how prost a Jew was, he could still daven (pray). 1959B. Kops Hamlet of Stepney Green ii. i. 43 They all start dovening in unison and until they are a swaying wave of bodies. 1984C. Ozick Cannibal Galaxy 89 Joseph,..come here and daven..you have not davened. 2000Vanity Fair Oct. 260/1 Sherry is sitting on the couch and he starts to rock, almost like a rabbi davening.
2. intr. To sway (as if davening); to rock to and fro.
1977M. Helprin Refiner's Fire (1990) i. i. 12 He was roundly, rotatingly drunk, davening in his drunkenness. 1993N.Y. Times 18 July h28/2 Edward Strauss raises his baton and dives into the overture. He sings along, hops, makes inverted O.K. signs, laughs, flamencos, goose necks, punches air, davens, and flings his arms. 1995Esquire Oct. 142/2 He saw alley upon alley of palms and other trees of waxen leaves, filtering the beginnings of a golden sunset and slightly davening in the wind.
Derivatives. davener n.
1952V. Gollancz My Dear Timothy xi. 98 Mixed up with this sense of it all being such fun was the idea..that some merit attached to the *dávaner himself for knowing the prayers and for knowing how to say them. 2003Jewish Weekly (Nexis) 26 Sept. 21614 During Sunday's morning minyan..Rabbi Joseph Rosenbluh darted around the run-down sanctuary..helping daveners find the appropriate page in the book of Selichot. |