;VOUCHSAFE, vouch and safe to vouch or answer for safety. 1. To permit to be done without danger. 2. To condescend to grant. ; Shall I vouchsafe your worship a word or two? ; It is not said by the apostle that God vouchsafed to the heathen the means of salvation.

Vouchsafe, O Lord (Greek Καταξίωσον, Κύριε, Latin Dignare, Domine) are the initial words of a prayer from the Matins and Vespers service of the Eastern Orthodox, [citation needed] and the former Prime and Compline of the Roman and Eastern Catholic Churches, and for Matins and Vespers (or Morning and Evening Prayer) of the Anglican, Lutheran, and other liturgical Protestant churches.